Visuals That Show Impact: 5 Simple Tips

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July 16, 2025

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Subject: Visuals That Show Impact: 5 Simple Tips

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Communications

Data Visuals That Wow: 5 Easy Ways to Show Impact

By Stephanie Evergreen July 16, 2025

Transforming your impact data into sharp, strategic charts is easier than you might think. These simple visualization strategies will make your outcomes crystal clear.
Government and Legislation

Bipartisan Support Helps Foundations Avoid Tax Increase in New Trump Legislation

By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press July 16, 2025

Two Republican senators and a broad bipartisan coalition of funders and nonprofits prevented a 600% increase in taxes levied on the endowments of the largest private foundations.
Leadership

Foundation Leaders Increase Payouts and Defend Philanthropy’s First Amendment Rights

By Alex Daniels July 8, 2025

Tonya Allen, Deepak Bhargava, and John Palfrey are united in their determination to give according to their values.
In Case You Missed It

7 Tips to Kickstart Monthly Giving and Boost Your Nonprofit’s Financial Health

By Lisa Schohl May 2, 2025

Expert advice to help you build a monthly giving program that delivers, from setting up the systems and tools you’ll need to finding potential donors and ensuring they stick around.

WEBINARS

Today: July 24 at 2 p.m. ET | Register Now

Nonprofits raise as much as a third of their annual fundraising revenue in the final quarter of the year, but savvy major gift officers keep their major donors and major gift prospects informed and engaged all year long. Join us for Plan Now for Big Gifts at Year’s End to learn smart ways to map out donor meetings, craft compelling messages, and track key metrics to ensure you make the most of the next six months and hit your goals for the year.

ONLINE FORUMS

Today: July 22 at 2 p.m. ET | Register Now

Join us for Ask the CEO: What to Know About the Gates Foundation’s Future, a special one-on-one interview with Mark Suzman, head of the Gates Foundation, and Chronicle CEO Stacy Palmer. They’ll discuss the foundation’s priorities, including its decision to spend $200 billion in the next 20 years before shutting down and explore why other grant makers may want to accelerate their giving. Submit your questions. We’ll answer as many as we can during the live event.

Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

The Trump Administration is poised to incinerate nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food aid that has been sitting in a warehouse in Dubai. Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development have received no response to their requests for permission to distribute the high-energy biscuits, which would feed about 1.5 million children for a week. (Atlantic)

Plus: Texas Food Banks Are Rationing Meals for Flood Survivors Because of Trump’s Cuts (Grist)

Threatened Cuts to Public Broadcasting, Foreign Aid

PBS and NPR’s Last-Ditch Fight to Save Funding (New York Times)
Rural America and Kids Will Suffer if PBS Is Defunded, Its Chief Says (Washington Post)
Senate Republicans Divided Over Looming Vote to Rescind $9 Billion in Spending (Washington Post)
Trump Official Accused PEPFAR of Funding Abortions in Russia. It Wasn’t True. (New York Times)

More News and Opinion

An IRS Regulation Change That Could Sow Societal Division (Atlantic)
Vote.org Promised 8 Million Voters. Its Founder Says That Was Never the Goal. (Politico)
- Background from the Chronicle: Turmoil at Vote.org
Medical Charity MSF Accuses Ethiopian Soldiers of ‘Targeted Killing’ of 3 Staffers in Tigray in 2021 (Associated Press)

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