TGL Features

Welcome to The Giving List San Francisco Bay Area, 2023

We are thrilled to present you with this year’s edition of The Giving List San Francisco Bay Area. We hope this will be a useful tool as you sort through the many important nonprofit organizations and causes that depend on your support for survival. The Giving List was created out of the belief that storytelling, one of the most powerful tools we have as humans, is vastly underutilized in educating donors on the foundational work being done by nonprofits.  What you have in your hands is a compendium of powerful stories describing the work being done by some of the [...more...]

New Money

Philanthropy, incorporated for the public good, can and should make all its investments accordingly. In 2021, Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a bill to more tightly regulate donor-advised funds, commonly referred to as DAFs. While the Accelerating Charitable Giving (ACE) Act’s reforms were far from sweeping, the bill set off a bitter debate over who controls charitable funds: the donor or the public. The Act’s supporters plausibly argued that wealthy donors could use the increasingly popular philanthropic instruments for personal gain, and that DAFs allow them to hoard and perpetually control what becomes public money once [...more...]

Giving Lotus Giving Lotus

We launched The Giving List to help the nonprofit organizations featured in this book spend less time fundraising and more […more…]

How to Read This Book How to Read This Book

The Giving List was created to make it easier for you to navigate the dizzying array of worthwhile causes and […more…]

Philanthropy Made Big Changes. Will They Stick? Philanthropy Made Big Changes. Will They Stick?

Pandemic. Political and economic instability. A generational reckoning with racism. In the wake of the double blow of COVID-19 and […more…]