Articles by Sid Davis

In federal district court in Northern California a lawsuit has been filed that many in the philanthropy industry are following carefully.

In just the last several years the term “artificial intelligence” has become part of our cultural lexicon, a fact indicative not only of the rate of development of AI systems, but the extent to…

TrendTrack specializes in publishing detailed looks at specific aspects of the charitable giving sector, but in writing articles we contributors often come across curious or interesting data that…

Here's a quote that may sound familiar to grantseekers out there: “The process of getting funded was harder than I ever thought it would be.”

For an assortment of reasons, people in advanced economies are moving away from the use of physical currency in daily life.

In recent years, analyses of the U.S. charitable giving sector have highlighted the decline of low and middle income donors, and the concurrent rise of high income donors, a trend that mirrors the…

On the last day of September the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which was instrumental in purchasing and preserving parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and monuments across the…

Ask any visual artist, writer, or musician what the hardest part of their job is and most will tell you that simply generating an income sufficient to allow a full-time focus on art is the…

Influenced by events of recent years, many observers believe that the charitable sector can achieve its maximum potential only with a rethinking of the processes behind funding decisions.
Collaborative leadership is a topic that comes up frequently within the nonprofit realm. It's sometimes referred to by other names, including relational, distributed, collective, and shared leadership. Whatever the terminology, it can be a crucial
Humanity's relationship to technology has been a burning existential issue ever since the invention of machinery. The typewriter was once excoriated by social observers for replacing the human element of handwriting with that of soulless machine
The COVID-19 pandemic has in a short span of time sent our world into flux. Nobody knows what its final shape will be, but with social contact limited, events have been cancelled, spending patterns have changed, and people's personal priorities have