Kathy Merchant is president and chief executive of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, one of some 700 community foundations in the US. Like most community foundations it offers a donor-advised fund ...

Many wealthy people are turning to donor-advised funds (DAFs) to assist with their charitable efforts. According to the National Philanthropic Trust, grants from DAFs to qualified charities totaled an ...

Something troubling is happening to charitable giving in the United States. On the surface, this is a strange assertion, as overall contribution levels are remarkably consistent from year to year.

As financial advisors, we’ve often recommended that clients set up donor-advised funds. We know the drill: Contribute to the fund and get an immediate tax deduction. But it often takes time for the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) One distinguishing feature about DAF donors is that when they dispatch money from ...

Six years ago, the Calvert Foundation launched an independent nonprofit, ImpactAssets, tasked with managing what was then a donor-advised fund still in prototype and run by Calvert. The goal was to ...

Donor advised funds are endowment-like funds that are operated by public charities. When a donor makes a gift to a donor advised fund, a separate fund is created for the donor by the public charity ...

Terrorists and their sympathizers may be using one of America’s greatest strengths — its tradition of philanthropy — to undermine peace and security. The weapons are not airplanes or shoe bombs, but ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The suit says a man stopped at a crash scene was pulled from his car and handcuffed ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University and Helen Flannery, University of Vermont ...