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March 19, 2025
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From: Philanthropy Today

Subject: 11 Ways to Make Small Donors Feel Like a Million Bucks

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    Fundraising

    How to Treat Every Donor Like They Matter — and Keep Them

    By Allison Fine
    Here are tips to engage small-dollar donors beyond simply asking for gifts, including ways to use AI to make outreach feel more personal.
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    Philanthropy 50

    Thomas Golisano Gave $500 Million to 125 Organizations in 2024

    By M.J. Prest
    Much of the money went to social-services groups that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
  • A Syrian girl in Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan, finds joy and healing through Artolution’s collaborative art.
    Grants Roundup

    Iconiq Impact Pledges $200 Million Through Its Youth Mental Wellbeing Co-Lab

    By M.J. Prest
    Also, Open Philanthropy promised $120 million through its Abundance and Growth Fund to advance economic development, and the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation gave $10 million to develop precision therapies for Alzheimer’s disease.

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    Donors funneled nearly $55 billion to nonprofits through donor-advised funds in 2023. To gain a better understanding of the people who hold these accounts, join us for Actionable Insights Into DAF Donors. We’ll share key findings from new research on DAF donors and proven tactics for attracting gifts from them, making it easy to give this way, and recognizing their support — so they’ll give more.

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    March 5, 2025
    Join Editor-in-Chief Andrew Simon for Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda, a reporters’ roundtable on what the second Trump administration means for the sector. Our reporters will share the latest on topics including threats to federal funding and DEI efforts; how foundations are responding to the administration’s moves; the role lobbying and advocacy can play; and how leaders are navigating the uncertain fundraising environment.
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    February 27, 2025
    Artificial intelligence tools rely on vast amounts of data to deliver information and ideas at lightning speed. However, nonprofits must be vigilant about protecting the personal information of their clients and donors. Join us for Ensuring Data Privacy in the Age of AI: What Nonprofits Need to Know to identify what nonprofits should do to ensure that AI tools do not compromise the privacy of key constituents.

Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

A jury is deliberating in a lawsuit that could spell the end of Greenpeace in the United States, filed by the owner of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline. In seeking at least $300 million, Energy Transfer says the storied environmental nonprofit led a “vast, malicious publicity campaign” during 2016 protests against the pipeline, which cost the company money. Greenpeace says the case is a threat to free speech and that it entered the protests only at the invitation of the Indigenous people who were leading it. If successful, the litigation could force Greenpeace to shut down its American office, after more than 50 years of activism. (New York Times)

Even as some environmental groups regain access to millions of federal dollars that the Trump administration had frozen, they are bracing for a wave of probes and prosecutions. The new administration alleges that recipients of the Biden-era Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which it has canceled, defrauded the government. Some groups have reportedly been ordered to hand over their correspondence with staff from the Environmental Protection Agency, records of “transactions related to their programs, and their organizations’ articles of incorporation and policies.” (Floodlight)

  • Plus: E.P.A. Offers No New Evidence in Battle Over $20 Billion in Climate Grants (New York Times)

The USAID Shutdown

  • Bill Gates Reportedly Warned Trump His Foundation Won’t Be Able to Fund Global Health Gaps If the Administration Keeps Making Major Cuts (Fortune)
  • ‘No One Can Fill That Gap’: Why a Global Health Leader Sees U.S. Funding as Irreplaceable (Stat)
  • ‘We Couldn’t Wait Any Longer’: Anti-Hunger Nonprofit Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff Amid Federal Funding Delays (Boston Globe)

Nonprofits Face Cuts, Freezes, and Litigation

  • San Antonio Catholic Charities Lays off 200 as Trump Cuts Put Agency ‘in Crisis’ (San Antonio Express-News)
  • Immigration Nonprofits Sue Homeland Security Over Frozen Funds (Bloomberg Law)
  • Nevada’s Mental Health Nonprofits Warn of ‘Devastating’ Potential Federal Funding Cuts (Nevada Independent)
  • After Trump Halted Funding for Afghans Who Helped the U.S., This Group Stepped In to Help (Los Angeles Times)
    • Background from the Chronicle: Nonprofits and the Trump Agenda

More News

  • At the U.S. Institute of Peace, It’s War When Musk’s Team Arrives (New York Times)
  • Plus: Democrat Vows to ‘Stop Doge’s Illegal Power Grab’ At Nonprofit Peace Institute (Guardian)
  • Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Trade Accusations Over Charities Investigation (Minnesota Star Tribune)

Trump Targets Museums and Libraries

  • Trump Moves to Dismantle Institute of Museum and Library Services (Hyperallergic)
  • Trump Cuts Could Mean Kentucky Libraries, Universities and Museums Lose Millions (Lexington Herald-Leader)

Note: In the links in this section, we flag articles that only subscribers can access. But because some journalism outlets offer a limited number of free articles, readers may encounter barriers with other articles we highlight in this roundup.

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