The stock market’s weak performance at the end of 2022 may have made donors less willing to give.
- Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Donald A. Campbell Chair in Fundraising Leadership, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
Nonprofits rarely get money they are free to spend on any purpose.
Our preoccupation with the personal relationships of big donors is overshadowing charitable efforts.
They’re conducting research, accommodating testing facilities and turning dorms into quarters for medical professionals while also helping people muddle through hard ethical decisions.
For higher ed, this is a crisis of unknown proportions.
It helps when school leaders are open about their financial struggles before it’s too late to forge a good plan.
New systems with stricter rules would make it easier to hold colleges and universities accountable on behalf of the taxpayers who support them.
By some measures, Americans are giving less to charity through their jobs than they used to. But many companies say that increasing this kind of charity is a priority for them.
