Alan Cantor’s article (“A New Sleight-of-Hand for Skirting Foundation Giving Rules,” Opinion. May 31) raised concerns about private foundations funding donor-advised funds held by community ...

Donor-advised funds continue to surge past nonprofits and foundations in accumulating charitable assets: They are now worth almost one third more than they were before the recession started in 2007, ...

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 ...

More Americans are using donor-advised funds to claim charitable tax write-offs now. The cash is taking longer than expected to get to non-profits. The post How to rescue your charitable donations ...

(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 ...

Vanguard Charitable recently said that its donor-advised fund clients hit a giving record, much of it in response to natural disasters. Donors directed their dollars to relief for the damage caused by ...

Political engagement is a big concept that could conceivably encompass most charitable activities: Think nonpartisan voter registration, issue advocacy, and policy education. Charities have a rich ...

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(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 ...