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(Photo By Jonathan Borba via Pexels) Foundation endowments continued a three-year growth spurt, with 171 private foundations boosting holdings by 14.1% during calendar 2025, up from 10.3% for 2024. Similarly, endowments at 114 community foundations surveyed grew 14.7%, up from 11% during 2024. The three-year growth streak marks the longest stretch that private and community […] The post Private,…
(image from pexels.com) Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), a nonprofit founded by clinicians to advance responsible health artificial intelligence (AI), announced new efforts to enable health systems, payers, and health tech companies to respond to frontier model threats, defending against potential attacks and harnessing frontier models for defense. Frontier model technology refers to the most […]…
(image from redcrossblood.org) The American Red Cross launched the LifeBlood Fund, a five-year, $300 million national effort to strengthen and modernize the nation’s blood supply. The LifeBlood Fund launch comes as the Red Cross announced its second-ever blood supply crisis after donations fell to a four-year summer low. According to Red Cross data, someone in the […] The post Blood Supply Getting…
(image from pexels.com) Nonprofit hospitals and health systems rated by credit ratings agency Fitch raised their operating margins and extended their financial recovery during 2025, according to Fitch Ratings. The overall operating margin, with the median rising to 1.5% from 1.1% the prior year, showed the third consecutive year of improvement following the historical sector trough of […] The post…
Eshauna Smith was appointed the first president of StriveTogether in Cincinnati, Ohio. She most recently was with of Ballmer Group and Urban Alliance. Smith will serve alongside CEO Jennifer Blatz to drive organizational alignment, strategy and innovation to move faster across the Cradle to Career Network and the broader place-based partnership field. According to an announcement […] The post…
Ellen Roeder was promoted to senior vice president of strategic growth at RKD Group in Richardson, Texas. She has more than 20 years of experience spanning Fortune 500 companies, direct-to-consumer marketing, and nonprofit fundraising, according to an announcement from the firm. Roeder will continue leading strategic growth initiatives across RKD’s nonprofit client portfolio, helping organizations…
Maura Allen is the new chief program officer at Share Our Strength in Washington, D.C. Allen will lead Share Our Strength’s largest division, playing a role to shape a unified, forward-looking programmatic strategy to help advance the nonprofit’s mission of ending childhood hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad, according to an announcement from […] The post Allen Joins Share Our Strength…
(image from pexels.com) By Melanie Lambert The role of the grant professional is evolving. While strong writing remains essential, it is no longer the defining factor in funding success. In today’s highly competitive philanthropic environment, strategy, positioning, and judgment increasingly determine which proposals move forward. Grant funding has become more difficult to secure across sectors.…
(image from pexels.com) Data is high stakes for nonprofit around the globe, managing donor records, refugee data, and sensitive government grants. This growing digital footprint, and a lack of funding for cybersecurity, has made organizations increasingly vulnerable to security threats. According to the authors of a new report from technology firm Okta titled Nonprofits at Work […] The post NPO…
(image from pexels.com) Donor confidence is a moving target that could be affected by an overwhelming volume of new accessible information driven by artificial intelligence (AI), corresponding alternative choices, and possibly — too much information. This accessibility of information creates hesitancy, impacting how donors choose which organizations to support and how they monitor mission…
Amber Guild was appointed president & CEO of breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen in Dallas, Texas. Guild, a breast cancer survivor, joins Komen from McCann New York, where she had been chief executive officer since 2023. Guild spent more than two decades in leadership roles, including chief executive officer of advertising agency Grey and president of The […] The post Guild To Head Susan G.…
