A Council of Foundations and Foundation Center report outlines international giving trends by US foundations. The numbers reveal that US foundations, even when funding international programs, most often give to US groups rather than local organizations.

Christie’s is known for commercial auctions, but it also regularly donates auctioneers to museums and other cultural institutions and nonprofits for their benefit auctions. Now, it is extending its charitable work through partnerships with online platforms.

There have been many signs of trouble with the Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County. Why is a key organization like the 4Cs struggling like this?

This Voices from the Field feature from five community foundation leaders speaks to how they view the role of donor-advised funds and urges caution before rushing to regulation.

NYU surprised stakeholders yesterday by announcing it was freeing all its current and future medical students from tuition costs, significantly benefiting both the students and the public at large.

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died yesterday in Detroit of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76, but her music—and her social vision—live on.

A good part of the nonprofit sector still suffers from fear of advocacy. Perhaps it needs immersion therapy.

A Pennsylvania grand jury report blasts the Catholic Church for its response to reports of child abuse by its priests.

The New York Times’ Nicholas Confessore writes about the “unlikely activist” Alastair Mactaggart, who successfully spearheaded an initiative to protect data privacy in California. While Mactaggart is not, perhaps, a typical organizer, his campaign borrows themes and tactics from many activist movements before him.

In another sign that open-source technology is fully in the mainstream, leading Hollywood studios have come together to initiate an open-source software repository for film and media producers.

Facebook birthday fundraisers raised $300 million the first year they were offered. What might your nonprofit want to consider when mulling their use?

It is not just in the for-profit sector where the pay gap between executives and workers is widening. A new study of 22 leading nonprofit hospitals finds that within large hospital nonprofits, the CEO-worker pay gap is climbing quickly too.