In The News

In this section you will find news about The Lodestar Foundation grantees and projects. We encourage you to contact us if you are aware of any articles that should be referenced on our website.

Lodestar Foundation in the Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal, Februray 1, 2010.  The Lodestar Foundation's work on mergers and collaborations was highlighted in a story about the effect of the economy on the nonprofit sector. Lois Savage, Lodestar's president, emphasizes that "This is a wave of the future, not just a result of these times."

First cohort of Nonprofit Leadership Academy completes training
ASU News, May 20, 2009.  The inaugural class of the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation’s Generation Next Nonprofit Leadership Academy (Gen Next) graduated from its 9-month training on May 8 at the Disability Empowerment Center in Phoenix.

The urge to merge
The Artful Manager, May 7, 2009.  In a tight economy, there has been increasing chatter about the potential for mergers in the nonprofit world. The social service sector has seen a slew of them. But the arts have seemed more talk than action. While not specifically promoting merger, the Lodestar Foundation recently encouraged collaboration more broadly through their Collaboration Prize (winners announced in March).

Surviving Under One Roof
Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 26, 2009. (Registration Required)  For years, Brewster Center Domestic Violence Services and Tucson Centers for Women and Children ran shelters a few miles from each other in the southern Arizona city. Then last spring, the two domestic-abuse charities did something that more...

Economic Woes Bring More Charities Together
Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 26, 2009.  The turbulent economy is creating new incentives for charities to cooperate. More organizations are starting to share fund-raising and marketing ideas, while others are considering merging, combining "back offices" to handle administrative duties, or other formal alliances.

Center offers tools to boost Jewish nonprofits
Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, March 20, 2009.  Nonprofit agencies need to spend their money wisely and operate efficiently to get the most out of the limited dollars available to fund their missions, especially in hard times. So it's not surprising that business is brisk at the Jewish Technical Assistance Center, or JTAC, a program designed to help Jewish community nonprofits improve their capabilities.

Interview Collaboration Prize Co-Winners
Stanford Social Innovation Review, March 19, 2009.  On March 5th, the winners of The Collaboration Prize—the national competition with a cash award of $250,000 for the best nonprofit collaboration in the U.S.—were at long last announced by the Lodestar Foundation and AIM (the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan) Alliance. Appropriately, it was a tie! The blue ribbon panel of judges selected the YMCA & JCC of Greater Toledo and Dallas Museum of Nature and Science to share first place.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Finalists for $250,000 Nonprofit Collaboration Prize Announced
PhilanTopic, January 18, 2009.  We featured a nice post about the benefits of collaboration by Lois Savage, president of the Phoenix-based Lodestar Foundation, in December. To help encourage beneficial collaborations within the sector, Lodestar, in association with the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan (AIM) Alliance, initiated the Collaboration Prize, a $250,000 award to the best U.S. nonprofit collaboration in early 2008.

How to Fund Nonprofit Mergers and Partnerships
Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog, January 12, 2009.  One of the questions I’m seeing pop up frequently on listservs lately is: Where can I go to get funding for a merger? It’s a good question. If you don’t have enough unrestricted funding available to pay for your I.T. system, chances are you don’t have funding available to pay for a merger or partnership.