Alex Trebek and other celebrity nonprofit ambassadors can have a profound and lasting impact on the causes they choose to support. While not an easy relationship to cultivate, it can be well worth the effort. Here's how four nonprofits have benefited from the generosity of the late game show host and "Jeopardy!" guest hosts LeVar Burton and George Stephanopoulos.
Amanda L. Cole
To celebrate Instagram’s 11th birthday on Oct. 6, the social media platform announced it would match Instagram fundraisers of seven artists and creators through Giving Tuesday...
In honor of World Mental Health Day on Sunday, Pinterest has launched a new campaign, “Havens: Invest in Rest” to create space on its platform for users, or “pinners,” to reflect on the global impact of mental health. Additionally, it will give more than $1 million to mental health organizations...
The Miami Dolphins Foundation, last year, committed to raising $75 million to fund innovative cancer research through its signature Dolphins Challenge Cancer peer-to-peer event. In April, it transformed into a hybrid event. That successful change to hybrid will become its permanent format...
One-time online giving grew 15.6% last year, according to the study. Within that, recurring donations continued to outpace one-time gifts despite the pandemic and email communications played a huge role in the success of online fundraising...
Drew Scanlon is better known as “The Blinking Guy” in the viral GIF and meme, but he is now using that notoriety for a good cause...
New research from Fidelity Charitable found that what we already knew, in that, donors increased their giving year-over-year from 2019 to 2020. However, it also determined the percentage of donors that plan to maintain or exceed their giving levels going forward...
Inspiration4 returned from orbit Saturday, raising millions for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the process. Though St. Jude met its campaign goal, it will continue raising money through February 2022...
The University of Massachusetts Medical School is commemorating an unrestricted $175 million donation from the Morningside Foundation — the philanthropic arm of venture capital and private equity firm Morningstar — that will more than double its endowment...
For Pieta House, its Darkness into Light event began in 2009 with 400 participants at its signature Dublin event and evolved to 200,000 participants across 200 events in 16 countries a decade later. Peer-to-peer fundraising alone made substantial gains with millions more raised thanks to its e-communications strategy...
PayPal’s corporate social responsibility program provides employees with the opportunity to distribute grants to their local communities. This year, PayPal supported 75 organizations with a total of $1.4 million in grants...
The Born This Way Foundation is promoting kindness for the third-straight year with its #BeKind21 campaign that culminates on the U.N. International Day of Peace.
A new search tool makes it easier for volunteers to find local causes participating in the annual Sept. 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance...
Dallas-based Data Axle, a data and marketing solution provider, announced it has acquired two Armonk, New York-based companies — Lake Group Media Inc., a media buying and sales agency, and DonorBase Inc., a nonprofit cooperative database...
The number of people using buy now, pay later purchasing services has grown 48% in the last year, according to a recent study. With the technology entering the nonprofit space, nonprofits can make giving more affordable for the donor and potentially turn millennials and Gen Zers into major donors.
