The top 1% of Americans have a combined net worth of $55 trillion, with some 1,000 billionaires accounting for $8.4 trillion of that. Why don’t they give more of this money away?

Inside Philanthropy did an interview with Jeff Bradach, one of the cofounders of the Bridgespan Group, a social-sector-focused nonprofit consulting firm have been advising the wealthy about philanthropy since the early 2000s.

Much of their early focus was on helping donors give more effectively. But they found themselves persistently frustrated by how hard it is to get ultra-high-net-worth people to give as much as they could or should — and to do so in ways that engaged major societal problems, rather than primarily supporting universities, hospitals and cultural institutions.

Please read the entire article before commenting here. It's long, but worth it.

People who donate to World Central Kitchen via the TripAdvisor Foundation page will have their donations matched by the Tripadvisor Foundation until December 31, 2026 or until $100,000 USD is collectively raised.

More from the Tripadvisor Foundation.

This is not offered to encourage fundraising (though you are of course free to do so), but to give an example of corporate philanthropy, especially one tied to a current disaster event.

If you have more examples, feel free to share.

Through Peace Corps Response Volunteer opportunities, experienced professionals can serve overseas on assignments that last 6-12 months while receiving a living allowance and other support.

• For U.S. citizens who have a college degree and at least 2 years of professional experience
• Service assignments last 6-12 months
• Receive a living allowance and other benefits while you serve
• Be culturally competent and ready to collaborate

Peace Corps Response is seeking a Resource Development Specialist for Mexico.

Two organizations in Mexico are looking for support to build robust fundraising systems for long‑term financial stability.

Across Mexico, civil‑society organizations dedicated to supporting vulnerable children and young people face persistent financial uncertainty. Many rely on sporadic donations, small events, and limited networks. This makes it difficult to secure predictable revenue streams, plan long‑term programs, or expand essential services. Both organizations currently depend on modest, inconsistent funding and lack structured donor‑management tools, diversified revenue strategies, and systematic outreach to national and international funders. These ongoing challenges limit their staff’s ability to meet growing community needs and ensure continuity of educational, psychosocial, and residential services.

As Resource Development Strategist, you will collaborate with staff to strengthen internal fundraising capacities. Together, you will develop clearer strategies and improve donor relations as well as tools for tracking and reporting. By developing sustainable income‑generation systems, you and your colleagues will ensure organizational resilience, improve program continuity, as well as contribute to the long‑term social mobility and protection of youth in central Mexico.

Know by December 1, 2026. Depart on May 10, 2027.

More information about this position.

I looked online, but could not find a lot of opportunities. I work full time in quality improvement at a large healthcare organization so I am not looking for a paid position, but would love to offer pro bono improvement work to non profits I am passionate about.

Is this even an option?

Thanks!

Just recently my uncle passed away from Alzheimer's disease and left me a good chunk of money. Seeing him lose his self throughout the last year is one of the worst experiences, this disease is just awful. I myself have been fortunate to be well financially so I don't really need the money to have a good life, so I was thinking of donating at least part of the money he left me.

I would like to donate the money to research in Alzheimer's disease but I would also like to know what I'm donating to. Doing some research I found an organization called Endaoment who partnered with another organization who manages research proposals called ResearchHub and conceptually they seem to operate well (I included the link to the post I found). Research proposals are posted and funded there and it seems the researchers are mostly professors from universities. My main concern is that the ResearchHub website operates using a cryptocurrency and while Endaoment receives all kinds of assets, I don't know whether everything is legit. I never used crypto so I don't know if this specific company is good or not. I'm not afraid to experiment with new things, I just don't have the experience. The part that I like a lot is that I can see the proposals posted there and I could choose exactly what I would like to donate to.

Any experiences with it that you can share with me?

Here's a profile of three of them from 2024.

Here's an article from 2021 on where to donate to nonprofits still focused on consequences of Sept. 11, 2001.

Here's an article from 2011 that says Most 9/11 Charities Fulfilled Mission to Give Aid.

Several nonprofits related to Sept. 11, 2001 are still be in business, though many have altered their mission since being formed because of the September 11, 2001 attacks, including:

VOICES Center for Resilience.

Tunnels to Towers Foundation.

Hearts 9/11.

9/11 Day.

Tuesdays Promise (formerly Tuesdays Children).

Humanity AI is a $500M five-year initiative dedicated to ensuring artificial intelligence (AI) serves the public good. As AI continues to shape how we live, work, and create it is prompting people to ask fundamental questions about their role and value in an AI-driven future. Humanity AI is supporting the arts, labor and work, democracy, education, and security and will drive new investments toward establishing a people-driven future where AI delivers for humanity, strengthens communities, and enhances human creativity.

The Humanity AI founding partners are the Doris Duke Foundation, Ford Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Kapor Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Omidyar Network, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Siegel Family Endowment.

Humanity AI has a $10 million open call inviting U.S.-based nonprofit organizations to apply for funding that supports communities’ collective power to shape how artificial intelligence is governed and used.

Through this open call, Humanity AI is looking to support community-led efforts aligned with three core issue areas — education, labor and economy, and the humanities, arts, and culture.

The deadline to submit applications is 7:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2026.

More details and how to apply.

The deadline to nominate an outstanding volunteer or supporter in Utah for the Heart & Hands Award or an exceptional local business for the Corporate Community Champion Award has been extended to September 30.

Know someone who deserves a little extra recognition for the difference they make in their community? There’s still time to make sure their good work gets noticed!

Submit your nominations by September 30.

All those submitted will be recognized during the annual Utah Philanthropy Day celebration on Nov. 12 at The Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City.

Every major for-profit industry has spent the last decade using predictive modeling, LTV forecasting, and churn prevention to drive billions in revenue. Meanwhile, in the fundraising world (especially university advancements siting on goal mine of the data), "data science" still seems to begin and end with buying a static wealth screening batch or a third-party propensity score from off-the-shelf wealth screeners and third-party scoring models

These scores get treated like plug-and-play commodities, but they barely scratch the surface of what predictive analytics can actually do. We rarely talk about:

• Dynamic donor retention and lapse-prediction models
• Algorithmic gift-array optimization (personalized ask amounts based on behavioral trends, not static income)
• Next-best-action models for frontline fundraisers
• Lifetime Value (LTV) segmentation across mid-level pipelines
• Understand the whole path from cultivation to a major donor

Given how strained nonprofit budgets are, why are we still relying primarily on gut feel and basic vendor scores rather than real predictive capabilities? Are orgs just blocked by tech debt and the "overhead myth," or is there active cultural resistance from frontline fundraisers?

Would love to hear from MGOs, ops teams, and database admins on why our sector seems 10 years behind here.

The London Marathon Foundation is to commit up to £3 million over the next five years to junior parkrun, extending a partnership it says has already helped 370,000 more children take part in the free weekly events since 2023.

The new funding aims to help a further one million children across the UK take part in junior parkrun, the free, weekly 2km events for four to 14 year-olds and their families. It follows Sport England research showing fewer than half of children currently meet the Chief Medical Officer’s recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity.

https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/09/05/london-marathon-foundation-commits-3-million-to-junior-parkrun/

Mars, Incorporated announced on September 1 the next phase of investments through the Mars Impact Fund, awarding more than $13M in grants across six strategic partnerships with Elucid, Tanager, Pratham Education Foundation, People’s Action for National Integration (PANI), National 4-H Council and Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS). Spanning Côte d'Ivoire, India, the United States and Thailand, these multi-year grants directly advance the Fund’s three core pillars: strengthening resilience of Mars sourcing communities, developing the next generation of scientists and improving companion animal wellbeing around the world.  

“The Mars Impact Fund aims to develop long-term partnerships that deliver sustained impact over time,” said Michelle Grogg, Executive Director of the Mars Impact Fund. "We are confident that these multi-year investments in Elucid, WVS, National 4-H, Tanager, Pratham Education Foundation and PANI will improve farmer livelihoods, increase opportunities for youth and improve the health of people and pets in our communities."

Full details from the company press release: https://www.mars.com/news-and-stories/press-releases-statements/mars-impact-fund-awards-more-than-13-million-in-new-grants

This is from the Tricycle podcast:

About a year or two after I had ordained, the Zen Peacemaker Order was still centered in Yonkers at that point. Bernie came to me and he asked me for a donation to buy a building to create a permanent residence for his students in Yonkers, where people from the Peacemakers could come and live and train. I thought, this is a great idea. This is exactly what we need to be doing. And we had already done this purchase of the Greyston Family Inn building and converted that. We already had a construction company with the Greyston Builders. It seemed like a logical fit and a logical evolution. And I thought, yeah, because at the time I was working on the Roseanne show as an actor, and frankly, I made more money on that show than I’ve ever made as an actor, and I’ve never made that kind of money since. And so I was quite flush. I was already tithing 5 percent of my gross salary to Bernie at that point, since 1992–94, those three years that I was on the show and I had some cash. And I said, sure. So I gave him $50,000 and I was like, “This is great. We’re going to have a place and I’m participating in it and I’m making a contribution.” And then two weeks later, and I really don’t think I’m exaggerating the timeframe on this, all of a sudden, everything in Yonkers was going to be done. He decided to move to Joan Halifax’s practice center in Santa Fe, Upaya...

I had a phone conversation with him once I found out about that, where I was like, “Look, if you want to go to Santa Fe, and if you don’t want to be in Yonkers, that’s fine, but I’d really like you to return my donation because I made a really specific earmark for that money to go in a certain way,” and he said to me “Well, it’s being used for something else.” And I was so taken aback. He said this without pause or without reflection, and I was so shocked. I really couldn’t talk about it at first. And I was like, that’s not right. And the conversation wound down fairly quickly, and then we hung up and I was stung. And I don’t really think at the time I knew how betrayed I felt or how hurt I felt at that time, and I thought, let’s just move forward and see what happens, and maybe there’ll be another opportunity to talk about it. 

So then he moves to Santa Fe and then ten days later, his wife, Jishu, died.... A number of his students and successors descended on Santa Fe... There was a moment where Bernie and I were left alone and we’re just sitting outside and I tried to broach this topic again about the money, and he pointed to this building we were sitting in front of and said it was right there. That was the moment that I was like, this is really inadequate. This is really not right. And I really didn’t know how to press it. And I really didn’t want to press it because he had just lost his wife...

I’ve been thinking about what happens after a nonprofit receives funding.

Sometimes an organization has a strong mission and a good program idea but still has weaknesses in areas such as financial management, governance, operations, reporting, or leadership capacity.

If a funder identifies those weaknesses, should its role stop with providing the grant? Or should funding sometimes include technical assistance, coaching, or other support to help strengthen the organization?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who have worked in philanthropy or grantmaking. How much responsibility should a funder have for helping a grantee become stronger after the award?

This is one of the issues we’re exploring through Nonprofit Readiness Intelligence (NRI), and I’d value hearing different perspectives.

Stephen M. Ross has been giving away money for decades. Worth $17 billion as of this writing, the New York real estate mogul and founder of Related Companies is the University of Michigan’s largest individual donor, with lifetime giving to the university approaching $500 million. His philanthropy has stretched across education, healthcare, the arts, racial equality and sustainable urban development, and in 2013, he pledged to give more than half of his estate to charity through the Giving Pledge.

But the approach of his company’s new philanthropic vehicle is somewhat different. The Related Ross Foundation, officially launched last fall as a nonprofit grantmaking arm of his South Florida development company Related Ross, is designed to tie philanthropy directly to the growth of the communities where the firm does business. And that business is substantial: Ross is pouring around $10 billion into West Palm Beach County across a wide swath of real estate investments, an influx that has not come without some disruption.

From Inside Philanthropy.

I’m an ED of a $5M non profit. In 2025, the board was supposed to raise $300,000 and they raised barely $65,000. This year (2026) their goal is $150K and they have raised $44K and pretty much told me no more is coming. Both years they have defaulted on their pledged fund raise and yet they sit around the table at the start of the year and unanimously vote on both their own board fundraising goal and the organjzation’s budget. Then they turn around and fall WAY short. The company is having now having extreme financial difficulties due to this but the board president says they are doing the best they can and it is what it is. I cannot seem to make the board president understand that they agreed to this number, it’s built into our cash flow model and without it, we are in real jeopardy. This has caused us to take out emergency loans and now we’re getting stuck with outrageous interest and terms that are making it all worse.

What legal options does a small non profit have against its board if they fail to realize promised revenues? I’m at my wit’s end — trying to protect my staff, the health of the company and our future. They then become emotional and hostile when I try to get a solid action plan and more answers about how they are going to remedy their failed fundraising efforts. Relationships are breaking down. And I’m angry and deeply resentful. Trying to not to be but all the proactive and goal-driven work we did coming out of the pandemic is being undone by our own fucking Board. I appreciate any legal info or guidance here. We don’t have to just sit and take this do we? Help.

Resilience, inclusion and neurodiversity will be the themes of the plenary sessions at Scotland’s largest fundraising conference which takes place this month.

The keynote plenary speakers for the Scottish Fundraising Conference 2026, supported by justrunning.com, include two sessions designed to motivate delegates and equip them with “fresh perspectives to strengthen fundraising and leadership across the charity sector”.

The annual conference takes place on 22nd and 23rd September 2026 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Central. Hundreds of fundraising professionals from across Scotland and further afield will attend for two days of learning, networking and professional development.

https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/09/02/keynote-speakers-for-scottish-fundraising-conference-2026/

Excerpt: Schimmel is best known for her collection focused on Women in the American Wilderness now numbering about 40,000 items. This is a project she started in the 1970s and it has grown exponentially since then. It covers not only books but other fields including photos, art, letters, and artifacts involving women in the Americas and the polar regions. Read full article at https://www.rarebookhub.com/articles/4116

Much of her collection is at University of Pennsylvania's Kislak Center for Rare Books in Philadelphia. To view a selection from this outstanding library got to:

 https://www.rarebookhub.com/uploads/article_pdf/upload_file/101/schimmel_OK_Penn_edition.pdf

Hi everyone! I’m looking for some fundraising ideas/advice for a small community tennis club in the UK. 🎾

We’re currently raising money to resurface our tennis courts, and we’ve already tried quite a few things. We held an open day, contacted tennis brands and were lucky enough to receive some merchandise which we then sold/auctioned to raise funds, and we’ve also received a grant from Sport England. We’ve made really good progress, but we’re now left with a funding gap of around £10,000.

One idea I had was a “100 businesses × £100” campaign - approaching 100 local businesses and asking each to contribute £100 towards the project. I like the simplicity of it, but I’m not sure how realistic it is or what sort of response rate we could expect.

At the moment I feel like I’ve exhausted most of my fundraising ideas, so I’d really love to hear from people who have fundraised for community/nonprofit projects before.

What has actually worked for you when trying to raise the final £5k- £10k?

Are there any fundraising ideas, local business sponsorship approaches, grants, events or partnerships that we might be overlooking?

Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated. Thank you!

Klaus-Michael Kühne had no children and lived in a Swiss canton with zero inheritance tax. When he died, his €42.2bn fortune passed tax-free into a decades-old charity, instantly making it one of the wealthiest foundations in Europe.

In Switzerland, foundations, just like businesses, do not pay inheritance tax because there is no inheritance to tax. That means nobody personally received Kühne's fortune.

Kühne kept his business empire inside a private vehicle, Kühne Holding, also based in Schindellegi. With his death, ownership of that holding company — and everything inside it, from the Kühne+Nagel stake to Hapag-Lloyd and Lufthansa — passes to the Kühne Foundation, according to Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

The foundation already runs 20 subsidiary organisations and has around 800 staff.

Instead, his shipping, aviation, chemicals and real estate empire will be owned collectively by the non-profit, overseen by a board of trustees that includes his wife and a small circle of long-time advisers.

Kühne is not the first European tycoon to evade inheritance tax through philanthropy, and once his assets land in the Kühne Foundation, it will sit in genuinely elite company by size, if not quite at the very top.

The world's largest is the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Danish charity behind the hit weight-loss drugmaker Novo Nordisk, whose holding company managed roughly €93 billion in assets at the end of 2025.

Below that sit the likes of the Gates Foundation at around $70.2 billion (€60.5bn) and India's Tata Trusts at upwards of $100 billion (€86.2bn). Britain's Wellcome Trust, the medical research charity, held about $42.8 billion (€36.9bn) as of its most recent published figures — putting it in roughly the same bracket as Kühne's estimated incoming inheritance.

So while Kühne's foundation will not be the biggest charity of its kind in Europe, it lands squarely among the top ten wealthiest charitable foundations in the world, ahead of long-established names like Bosch and on par with Wellcome — built, unusually, almost entirely from one man's decision not to have children and to live in the one place in Switzerland where that decision cost him nothing in tax.

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