Community Foundations Have Every Reason to Embrace a New Senate Bill to Regulate Donor-Advised Funds
Opposition from the funds is mounting, even though the legislation offers an ideal moment for community foundations to distinguish themselves from commercially sponsored funds like Fidelity and Schwab.
By Alan M. Cantor
Reporter
Education Innovations Deserve as Much Philanthropic Investment as Support for Medical Research
A new fund aims to let people closest to the challenges facing schools work hand in hand with research and development experts to find new approaches that will help students of color and those who live in poverty.
By Romy Drucker, Bob Hughes and Sandra Liu Huang
How MacKenzie Scott’s Gifts to Leaders of Color Fuel Transformation
Unrestricted dollars from the billionaire allow us to experiment, make discoveries, and protect the health of our organizations — as well as ourselves and our colleagues.
By Bianca Casanova Anderson
Contributor
How Much Money Does Philanthropy Need to Give to Fight Racial Equity?
The infusion over the past year will be insufficient unless foundations, corporations, and wealthy donors do more to capitalize and sustain a vigorous social-change movement.
To Achieve Racial Equity, Invest in the College Success of Parents
Student parents are often overlooked and underfunded. But addressing their challenges is critical to tackling many of the most pervasive and complex problems our country faces.
By Nicole Lynn Lewis and Vinice Davis
National Service Is One of the Few Things That Could Unite America
A new national campaign will raise up diverse voices from across the political spectrum in support of expanded national service. We call on philanthropic organizations of all stripes to join us.
By Laura Lauder and Stanley McChrystal
Nonprofit Salaries Should Absolutely Be Disclosed in Job Ads
Vincent Robinson’s recent op-ed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy makes faulty arguments and does little to further equity in the nonprofit world, say some critics.
They drove ambulances, administered oxygen, and kept the health-care system running when the coronavirus struck, but many of these workers struggle to advance in their careers without assistance. Grant makers interested in work-force development can help.
By Tamar Jacoby
Contributor
To understand why it’s important to support healing-focused approaches to structural racism, philanthropy should take time to learn the horrible history of government-sanctioned boarding schools designed to obliterate Indigenous cultures.
By Erik Stegman
Contributor
Analyzing the data shows that even though many people accumulated great wealth last year, their philanthropy did not keep up.