An Activist and an Adversary Found Common Ground. Making Change Proved Harder
Leah Garcés ran hard-hitting animal-rights campaigns. Craig Watts raised 700,000 chickens on a factory farm. Their partnership can be celebrated, but collaboration has its limits.
By Marc Gunther
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The 50-year movement to legalize cannabis was funded by a handful of very rich and ideologically diverse philanthropists, including Hugh Hefner, George Soros, and Sean Parker.
By Marc Gunther
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How a Debate Over Vaping Might Derail the War on Tobacco
Anti-smoking groups aren’t just fighting big tobacco. They’re fighting amongst themselves.
By Marc Gunther
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Rockefeller’s Rajiv Shah: Highest Paid CEO Among Big Foundations
His management style has sown discontent among some, but he also has admirers.
By Marc Gunther
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No Apologies: Rajiv Shah Stands by Rockefeller’s Top-Down Approach
Even as MacKenzie Scott and the Ford Foundation popularize unrestricted giving, the Rockefeller Foundation maintains an experts-know-best approach to grant making.
By Marc Gunther
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Foundations say the summer of protests following his murder changed them forever. But for many racial-justice nonprofits, the free-flowing supply of grants proved to be short-lived.
Grant Makers Join Together to Learn About — and Fund — Racial Justice
New pooled funds seek grants from foundations or individuals, aggregate the money, and give it away. The efforts aim to drive fundamental change by building Black nonprofits’ public-policy muscle.
By Marc Gunther
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Foundation Investment Choices Potentially Lose $20 Billion a Year for Grantees
A new analysis shows that grant makers, whose assets fell 17.3 percent last year, could achieve stronger returns by not relying so heavily on professional money managers.
By Marc Gunther
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Teen Vogue, Podcasts, Photo Essays: How Foundations Aim to Inspire New Thinking About Capitalism
Several big foundations have set their sights on college textbooks, documentary films, and other means to make America’s future more just.
By Marc Gunther
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Can Philanthropy Remake Capitalism?
Some foundations think capitalism is at the root of the staggering economic gaps and other social ills in this country. Some call for sweeping changes; others say that’s overreach.
By Marc Gunther
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