Giving to nonprofits engaged in education, health, arts, culture and humanities, the environment, and animals reached all-time highs.
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Huge donations actually help billionaires spin stock swings into tax breaks and lasting influence.
A new report shows revenue for the charity sector hit a record high in 2023. But if you leave out one huge single donation, total donations were flat.
After some 30 years and thousands of wagging tails, the Million Paws Walk takes its final steps, revealing a deeper crisis threatening Australia’s charities.
Money raised through foundation grants can be larger and more predictable than advertising revenue, but it often comes with strings attached.
Public media can’t replace everything that’s been lost during journalism’s economic crisis. But it has plugged some major holes, particularly at the local level.
Since 1971, the US has led the world in funding cancer research and developing new treatments that have driven down death rates. This may soon no longer be the case.
Donor-imposed restrictions keep colleges and universities from freely determining how and when to spend a large share of their endowment funds.
Because the US government has rarely offered full-throated support for the arts, there’s a long tradition of innovation, adaptation and collective action among American artists.
The president has followed in the footsteps of Louis XIV of France and the czars of Russia, who operated national theaters as extensions of monarchical power.
The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is an immediate disaster, but the economic model for international solidarity has been outdated for a long time.
Aga Khan, the religious leader of the Ismailis – a sect of Islam – established the Aga Khan Foundation in 1967. It has served millions around the world since then.
Rural violence is a huge problem in South Africa that deserves a strong response. But white people are not the only casualties.
The 19th-century industrialists were called ‘robber barons’ – but they did more to improve society than many of today’s super-rich.
For people without access to banks, community savings groups are a lifeline. New research suggests they’re good stewards of donors’ money, too.
The Conversation’s Australia and New Zealand Editor Misha Ketchell reflects on 2024 and thanks all our readers and donors.
The CEO’s splashy style, which some critics see as influenced by US philanthropy, contrasts with the traditional French preference for understated sponsorship. What is Arnault hoping to achieve?
The average price of a ransom is A$560,000. Saving a life through strategic philanthropy? $A6,000. Journalist Jenny Kleeman investigates the many ways decision-makers put a price on the priceless.
Is it a game changer or just pocket change?
Tata’s trail blazer has died aged 86.
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Glenn Family Chair Emeritus of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Accounting, The Ohio State University
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Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy, Grand Valley State University
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Adjunct Associate Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Donald A. Campbell Chair in Fundraising Leadership, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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UNESCO Chair in AI Ethics & Governance, IE University
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Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
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Director, Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent
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Professor of Management, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Associate Rrofessor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Professor in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University