Fresh Research, a podcast from The NonProfit Times, takes a closer look at a recent report, study or survey and what it means for nonprofits, fundraisers, executives and the sector at large.
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Fresh Research, a podcast from The NonProfit Times, takes a closer look at a recent report, study or survey and what it means for nonprofits, fundraisers, executives and the sector at large.
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April 6, 2022
Best Nonprofits To Work For 2022
<p>"Employees are the most important thing to the success of our business so if allocating resources there is going to make a difference in achieving our mission and achieving our goals, we’re going to allocate resources there," <a href="https://www.usta.com/en/home/about-usta/who-we-are/midatlantic/usta-mid-atlantic-staff-directory.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tara Fitzpatrick-Navarro</a>, president and CEO of the <a href="https://www.usta.com/en/home.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic Section</a> (USTA-MAS), said.</p> <p>Last year, the USTA-MAS hired a concierge service for its employees. It’s not about scoring reservations at the trendy new restaurant or tickets to a sold-out show. It’s more about getting tedious or mundane tasks off the plate of employees so they can focus on their jobs.</p> <p>It's the second consecutive year that the Herndon, Va.-based organization earned the No. 1 ranking in <a href="https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/hr/leaders-find-ways-to-make-jobs-easier-while-building-relationships/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The NonProfit Times' 2022 Best Nonprofits To Work For</a>. In this episode, Fitzpatrick-Navarro explains how the concierge service helps her organization. She also discusses other programs, benefits and initiatives, including employee involvement in selecting a new healthcare plan option and personalized, handwritten notes she sends to her nearly two dozen employees.</p> <p>"It's just this additional step of trying to make everything in your life work through benefits that we provide you so that you can be your absolute best employee," Fitzpatrick-Navarro said of the new concierge service. "So you can be the most productive, both personally and professional. It's awesome." USTA Mid-Atlantic also made changes to its health care plans, including employee engagement in making that decision. Employees also were surprised with a pie -- delivered to their doors -- for Thanksgiving.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/hr/leaders-find-ways-to-make-jobs-easier-while-building-relationships/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Nonprofits To Work For</a> is an annual survey by The NonProfit Times in partnership with Best Companies Group. Organizations register in the fall to participate and go through a battery of surveys. Those results are then scored across eight different categories and ultimately 50 nonprofits make the cut. You can find more details and the complete <a href="https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/hr/leaders-find-ways-to-make-jobs-easier-while-building-relationships/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best Nonprofits special report</a> in the <a href="https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/the-nonprofit-times-digital-edition/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">April print edition of The NonProfit Times</a>.</p>
March 23, 2022
Dan David Prize Winner Tyrone Freeman
<p>A woman builds a business empire and then goes on to give away millions of dollars to charity. It’s not an unusual story, at least not today -- but if the woman was an African-American during the Jim Crow era?</p> <p>Madam C.J. Walker is considered America’s first self-made, female millionaire. We’ll learn more about her in today’s episode from <a href="https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/people-directory/freeman-tyrone.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tyrone McKinley Freeman</a>, the author of <a href="https://gospelofgiving.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow</a>.</p> <p>Freeman is an associate professor of philanthropic studies and director of undergraduate programs at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. He’s also among nine winners of the <a href="https://dandavidprize.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2022 Dan David Prize</a>, which recognizes “outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.”</p> <p>Established in 2001 by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Dan David, the prize is endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at Tel Aviv University. Winners will be honored at a ceremony in May. Each winner will receive $300,000 to recognize their achievements to date and support future work.</p> <p>In this episode, Freeman provides some history and perspective on African-American charitable giving and practices, how they shape today’s giving, and what fundraisers and charity executives can learn from that.</p> <p>"I grew up in the Black church, which is a very strong and historically important philanthropic institution, it was all around me," Freeman said. "I grew up in it but that word philanthropy wasn’t used. It was just something that people were doing what they thought they should do, what they felt like they were called to do but they didn’t think of themselves as philanthropists but this was the community that taught me about giving and generosity," he said.</p> <p>“When I became a professional fundraiser and I was trying to look at the field and see how it was engaging this community and other diverse communities, and really wasn’t finding much, or wasn’t finding much of an understanding or a connection to it, and yet it produced me so I knew it was real, I knew it existed,” Freeman said.</p> <p>He also discusses MacKenzie Scott's giving and from a historical perspective when it <a href="https://theconversation.com/mackenzie-scotts-hbcu-giving-starkly-contrasts-with-the-approach-of-early-white-funders-of-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-159039" rel="noopener" target="_blank">comes to Historically Black Colleges and Universities</a>.</p> <p>Freeman shares the history of Madam C.J. Walker and where her cosmetics empire stands today. "Being Black billionaires is new but giving is not," he said. The book "presents the first comprehensive story of Walker’s philanthropic giving arguing that she was a significant philanthropist who challenged Jim Crow and serves as a foremother of African American philanthropy today."<br> </p>
February 18, 2022
Endowing Black-Led Nonprofits
<p>Endowments are a common form of giving to higher education, arts , and medical research organizations.</p> <p>William Foster, managing partner, and Darren Isom, partner, of The Bridgespan Group, analyzed the investment income of 56 nonprofits dedicated to social change. Between 2000 and 2013, only 5% of philanthropic gifts of $10 million or more were deployed to endow social change organizations. On average, the endowments of organizations led by people of color were almost four times smaller than those of white-led organizations, and their average percentage of revenue was less than half.</p> <p>Rarely are endowments deployed for funding social change but they are common institutional nonprofits: 70% of organizations in higher education; 33% among hospitals, and 23% in the arts.</p> <p>Based on their analysis, Foster and Isom authored a piece in Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) titled <a href="https://ssir.org/articles/entry/endow_black_led_nonprofits" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Endow Black-Led Nonprofits."</a></p> <p>In this episode, Isom and Foster tackle what they say are the three objections that funders and donors often cite about endowing social change nonprofits:</p> <ul> <li>Most nonprofits, especially those led by people of color, lack the capacity to absorb a large gift.</li> <li>Nonprofits should work themselves out of business.</li> <li>I can manage the money better than a nonprofit.</li> </ul> <p>"It’s a stodgy tool for a radical purpose," Foster said of endowments. "It’s about giving money that you have to an organization that can deploy it in perpetuity. And it’s how all the greatest institutions that had a huge effect on our civil society was built," he said.</p> <p>"An endowment is not just a gift of transfer of money, it's a transfer of power," Isom said. "That makes endowments the ultimate form of trust-based philanthropy. The question becomes how do you disrupt the narrative in which you share who you think should be given that power."</p> <p>The pair put into context the disparity of endowment sizes of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). The 10 most richly endowed universities have almost 95 times larger than the total wealth of all 107 HBCUs combined.</p> <p>"As we think about the myth of absorptive capacity to some degree, I think there's something to be said, that for black-led organizations, particularly those with a proven record of progress, giving them too much isn't the problem, the real pitfall is when you give them too little," Isom said. "We engage in this world of philanthropic sharecropping where organizations are given just enough to make it into the year and ask for more the following year. There's something to be said about how you change the dynamic there."</p>
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