Eric Obernauer, Author at MinistryWatch
Majority of conservatives and liberals agree that DAFS should distribute money within 5 years
Growing majorities across the political spectrum appear to be unified in support of a payout requirement for donor-advised funds and would like to see increased foundation payout requirements.
More than half of 100 largest US charities now accept crypto
After a year of continued growth in crypto investments, last month 11 new bitcoin exchange-traded funds (EFTs) were approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Hundreds of thousands of donors and an unknown number of charities and businesses might have had private information exposed as the result of a security lapse involving fundraising and donor management platform DonorView.
National Council of Nonprofits leaders are urging colleagues to join them in supporting a revision to federal grantmaking rules that would allow nonprofits to renegotiate the dollar amount of federal grants and contracts whenever overtime ...
Several charities have come to the aid of victims of the Maui wildfire despite their own losses.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will begin deliberating later this year on the question of what qualifies as sufficiently “religious” for a charity to enjoy the legal protections that come with that designation.
The Salvation Army’s 2022 Red Kettle fundraising campaign declined for the third year in a row this past holiday season, tallying just more than $102 million, a 19.1% falloff from the pre-pandemic high of $126.1 ...
Annual giving from donor-advised funds (DAFs) tends to increase over time the longer an account is open, according to a new industry study.
Software giant Blackbaud has agreed to pay a $3 million fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for concealing the extent of a 2020 ransomware attack in which criminals obtained donors’ unencrypted bank account, ...
A proposal to restore the federal Universal Charitable Deduction, which expired at the end of 2021, has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate after failing to secure congressional passage last year.
