Opinion: Grant Makers Can Promote Diversity by Focusing on Who’s Managing Endowment Assets
Foundations are taking many steps to promote inclusiveness, but too often they forget one area that matters: making sure the people who invest their assets aren’t just white men. Here’s how one foundation is changing the equation.
Philanthropy Must Step Up for Fairness in Civil Justice
The growing focus on overhauling the criminal-justice system is heartening, but a crisis in the civil courts should also be on foundations’ agenda for change.
Grant Makers Need to Help the Poor Fight Legal Injustices
By helping people get lawyers to fight spousal abuse, home foreclosures, and other basic survival issues, foundations can make their grants go further.