council on foundations

To ensure foundations contribute more to charity, Congress should target expenses—not just the payout rate.

Wealthy foundations and nonprofits need to change their ways—not scare the rest of the field into submission.

As potential future legislative and regulatory battles beckon, a two-chart look at lobbying by three prominent groups in particular.

Nonprofits no longer have the influence they once did to bridge divides.

Is there a “Charity, Inc.” and if so, what could perhaps be done about it?

Leading nonprofit associations have rejected efforts to expand the rules governing donor privacy. Their concern is misplaced, and the field’s legitimacy is at stake.

Remarks at the Council on Foundations annual conference a decade ago.

The association executive talks to Craig Kennedy and Michael E. Hartmann about donor-advised funds, charity and politics, and the attention-getting op-ed in support of civility and pluralism in the sector that she signed with five others.

The association executive talks to Craig Kennedy and Michael E. Hartmann about populism and polarization, the minimum-distribution requirement for private foundations, and foundations’ uses of donor-advised funds.

And look at how to rebuild it.

“At a time when philanthropy faces mounting critiques,” the Council on Foundation’s new strategic plan proves it’s not up to the challenge of facing those critiques.

An exhortation—and legislation?—about charitable endowments.