Outside Erie

Each year, my publication, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, ranks the nation’s 400 largest charities based on their fund raising performance.
The Philanthropy 400 list is typically dominated by national charities, major universities, and big-name cultural institutions.
This year’s rankings, however, include a new group that doesn’t fall into any of these categories.
For the first time, the Erie […]

Don’t worry, I’m not going to use this space to speculate on who might have made the landmark $100 million gift to the Erie Community Foundation.
But Portfolio magazine has in its latest issue.
It’s a controversial move, as I noted yesterday on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Give & Take blog.
While it is fun to speculate […]

Erie Community Foundation President Mike Batchelor provided some great insights during a live discussion yesterday with the Chronicle of Philanthropy about the foundation’s recent $100-million anonymous gift.
Batchelor joined me, a board member of The George School, and Chronicle readers to talk about how to manage such gifts — and he talked, among other things, about […]

A quick little reminder that Erie Community Foundation President Mike Batchelor will be joining me today for a live online discussion with readers of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
The chat begins at noon Eastern time and runs for an hour. He’ll be taking questions about how the Foundation has handled its landmark $100-million gift — and […]

A few Erie-related things worth noting:

John Kanzius‘ cancer theory gets mention in the popular Freakonomics blog.
Erie Community Foundation President Mike Batchelor will be joining me on the Chronicle of Philanthropy Web site on Tuesday to take reader questions on how the foundation has managed its windfall, $100-million gift.
Ian Enterline weighs in on the volunteer firefighter […]

The $100 million anonymous gift to the Erie Community Foundation is getting yet more major press.
This time, it’s featured prominently in an upcoming cover story in my current newspaper, The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
The story points to a Chronicle survey that finds that major gifts by anonymous donors is a growing trend for charities. The survey […]

In case you haven’t yet heard the news, an anonymous donor has given The Erie Community Foundation $100 million — a major sum that will likely bring significant changes to some lucky nonprofit organizations in Erie.
The Erie Times-News reports that $85 million of that grant will be given to 46 Erie-area nonprofits. The remaining $15 […]