Philanthropy Daily

At Women Doing Well, a nonprofit dedicated to equipping women to live and give generously, we noticed an important and growing gap in philanthropy: Women are set to become power players as givers and managers of wealth. They’re poised to inherit a significant portion of the

Dear Intelligent American,

Actually, there was no cry warning about a falling tree—the behemoth descended in massive sections, the lumberjacks (East Coast mid-size city version) using ropes and crane to do the deed. She was a tulip tree, stretching to the heavens (at 100 feet it appeared that she indeed arrived there), but was nearly half dead. With each passing year a...

You’ve probably heard this before: “Your next major donor is already in your housefile.” After all, if they weren’t already aligned with your mission they wouldn’t be giving to you, right? But how do you find them? How do you know when your $5 monthly donor, Mrs. Abigail Smith, is secretly wishing you would reach out to her so she could leave your organization a transformatio...

While Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas (2026) warns of the dehumanizing risks posed by artificial intelligence, at its heart the encyclical calls for renewed human engagement and collaboration to “build a civilization of love.”

His plea could not come at a more urgent time. For decades, civic associations—once the bedrock of local communities—have steadily <...

As prices for, well, pretty much everything are on the rise, it seems that every nonprofit is looking for ways to spend less and raise more. It’s an age-old song.

At the same time, I often see nonprofits lose sight of “spending less” and instead rush to spend thousands of dollars chasing the newest shiny object in direct response fundraising. It’s as if they’re looking...