Mike Scutari

1 week ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Mike Scutari

The Institute for Policy Studies’ Independent Report on DAFs, which uses publicly accessible data to “demystify donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself,” lands at a time when two trends threaten to dramatically upend the philanthrosphere. The first is growing calls for philanthropy to fill the gaps left by draconian federal cuts.

1 week ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Mike Scutari

I recently contacted nonprofit news funders, editors and analysts to see if the field experienced a post-election “Trump Bump” in funding similar to what we saw in 2016 and early 2017.

2 weeks ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Mike Scutari

The National Civic League (NCL) was founded as the National Municipal League following an 1894 gathering of civic leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis and Frederick Law Olmsted. Citing “incompetence, inefficiency, patronage and corruption in local governments,” these individuals sought new models for governing and managing the nation’s cities during a time of profound social and economic disruption.

3 weeks ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Mike Scutari

Dale R. Anglin, director, Press Forward. Credit: Kamron KhanDale Anglin had been in philanthropy for about five years before she made her first journalism grant as the associate director for programs at Newark, New Jersey’s Victoria Foundation in the early 2010s. “No one was covering education in Newark at the time, so I gave a small grant for that purpose,” she told me.

3 weeks ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Mike Scutari

Columbia University. Credit: Peter Titmuss/ShutterstockOver the last few years, conventional wisdom suggested that higher education development officers’ efforts were being stymied by inflationary pressures that depressed giving from everyday donors and alumni boycotts that reached a public crescendo in the aftermath of Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s new Voluntary Support of Education suggests donors didn’t get the memo.