Joanna Jackson, Weingart Foundation: ‘We Don’t Have to Keep Doing the Routine Thing’
Jackson aims to break the top-down leadership approach and listen to the needs of nonprofits.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Sam Gill, Doris Duke Foundation: ‘Change the Idea Landscape’
As head of the New York grant maker, Gill has backed medical research, the performing arts, children’s health, and building bridges with the U.S. Muslim community.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Kara Inae Carlisle, Toya Fick, Romanita Hairston: Gen X Women of Color Leading Foundations
The CEOs of the Ford Family Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, and Murdock Charitable Trust share a lot in common
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
The New Generation of Foundation Leaders Is Younger and More Diverse
The new CEOs have risen through the nonprofit ranks, unlike their predecessors.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
A Growing Network Challenges How Charity Is Provided
True Charity, a conservative-leaning group of more than 200 nonprofits and churches devoted to poverty reduction, requires recipients to stick to a detailed work and self-sufficiency plan.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Diversity Up, Turnover Down, Wage Growth Normal at U.S. Foundations
A Council on Foundations survey finds greater racial diversity at the nation’s grant makers as well as a higher proportion of women in charge.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Who Needs a Foundation? For Melinda French Gates, a $250 Million Contest Keeps Her Philanthropy Lean
The grants will range from $1 million to $5 million and are meant to support small organizations focused on women’s mental and physical health. Lever for Change will manage the competition.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Carnegie Returns to Its Roots With Millions in Grants to Public Libraries
Carnegie Corporation of New York, founded by steel magnate and library builder Andrew Carnegie, thinks the public institutions can mend today’s societal fractures.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
The settlement of a case that would have tested whether charities can make grants based on race — and perhaps put the decision before the Supreme Court — has left the issue in a legal gray zone.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
As Election Nears, Four Freedoms Fund Seeks $5 Million to Support Immigrants
Project would help those who came to the United States as children.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter