Author: Laurie E. Paarlberg
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Activating Community Resilience: The Emergence of COVID-19 Funds Across the United States
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article draws upon concepts of community resilience to explore the antecedents of community philanthropic organizations’ response to COVID-19. Although the pandemic is a global threat, responses have been local. We test a model of community resilience activation in the context of the emergence of local COVID-19…
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Nonprofit jobs slow to recover from COVID-19
Based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the analysis found that the total number of nonprofit jobs rose 1.9 percent between August and September but was still down 7.6 percent (973,352 jobs) from pre-pandemic February levels…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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George Washington University receives $22.5 million for scholarships
The gifts include bequests of more than $15 million from the estates of alumnae Mary H. Shepard (’64) and her sister, Josephine R. Shepard (’65), and $6 million from the estate of Mildred Bland Miller, wife of the late Woodrow W. Miller (’47)…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Merrillville community center receives $10 million gift
The naming gift from the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation will be used to offset shortfalls in the Indiana town’s operating budget for the $24 million facility…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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An Alternative Framing of Organ Donation Registration: The Collective Donor Behavioral Model
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Notwithstanding the prevalent use of donor registration prediction models grounded by the theory of planned behavior (TPB), registration behavior continues to remain low. A collective donor behavior (CDB) model underpinned by social exchange theory is introduced and its predictive ability is tested against a baseline TPB model…
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Boston Foundation awards quarterly grants totaling $12.5 million
The awards include nearly $1.6 million in single- and multiyear discretionary grants to nineteen organizations, $11.3 million in between-cycle discretionary grants, and $200,000 in grants through the Free for All Fund, which supports classical and orchestral music events…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Automated Coding Using Machine Learning and Remapping the U.S. Nonprofit Sector: A Guide and Benchmark
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This research developed a machine learning classifier that reliably automates the coding process using the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities as a schema and remapped the U.S. nonprofit sector. I achieved 90% overall accuracy for classifying the nonprofits into nine broad categories and 88% for classifying them…
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Draper Richards Kaplan launches $80 million impact investing fund
Announced by the foundation in conjunction with the opening of its first European office, in The Hague, the fund will support social enterprises working to advance a sustainable, more just society…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Have you been exposed to the dark web?
WatchGuard releases free online tool so companies and organisations can check if their credentials have been exposed on the dark web 29 October 2020: With WatchGuard Technologies’ new dark web Scanning tool, businesses can simply enter their domain name into this search engine https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-resource-center/dark-web-scan to find out how many of their email accounts have been…
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PayPal to invest $50 million in Black- and Latinx-led VC firms
The company will invest $50 million in eight Black- and Latinx-owned venture capital firms as part of a $530 million commitment in support of efforts to advance racial equity in the United States…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Jewish Communal Fund awards $536 million in FY2020
In the fiscal year that ended June 30, grant dollars awarded by the largest Jewish donor-advised fund in the United States increased 17.5 percent, while the number of grants jumped 18 percent and the average grant amount rose 16 percent…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Rockefeller commits $1 billion for inclusive green recovery
The single largest commitment in the foundation’s history will focus on catalyzing private and concessional investments in efforts to scale distributed renewable energy across developing countries and ensuring more equitable access to COVID-19 data, tests and vaccines, and science-based tools…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Harvard receives $25 million gift for life sciences, business school
With the aim of bridging the worlds of business and science, the gift will fund curriculum development, faculty research, and programming, including the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Clinton Foundation forum highlights commitments for equitable recovery
Partnerships announced in conjunction with the launch of Building an Inclusive Recovery, a series of virtual convenings focused on racial, ethnic, tribal, economic, and health disparities pre- and post-pandemic, will support small businesses, invest in digital technology, and work to improve financial systems in underserved communities…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Rockefeller awards $5.5 million for COVID-19 testing, tracing in India
Grants will support the India-based manufacture of testing materials, scalable testing programs, and data-driven efforts to strengthen pandemic surveillance…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Cummings Foundation awards grants totaling $10 million
Through the Cummings $20 Million Grant Program, the foundation awarded grants ranging between $200,000 and $500,000 over ten years to thirty nonprofits in the greater Boston area…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Are You Ready: Financial Management, Operating Reserves, and the Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Nonprofits
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Scholars and practitioners have argued that effective financial management, particularly the development of operating reserves, can help nonprofits survive economic shocks. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a significant impact on the nonprofit sector, provides an opportunity to test whether nonprofits have followed that recommendation, and if…