Senior Editor, Advice

M.J. Prest

Senior Editor, Solutions

M.J. Prest is senior editor for solutions at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she highlights how nonprofit leaders navigate and overcome major challenges. She has covered stories on big gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, and the Huffington Post, and she wrote the young-adult novel Immersion. M.J. graduated from Williams College and after living in many different places, she settled in New England with her husband, two kids, and two rescue dogs.

Careers

A Former Obama Policy Adviser Will Lead Alliance for Justice

Also, the Deaconess Foundation has named a health-equity advocate as its next CEO, and the Warner Music Group/Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund has picked its first executive director.

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Corporations

Los Angeles Fund Awards $36.1 Million to Revive Cultural Groups; Novartis Advances Black Leaders in Health

Also, the Knight Foundation is seeking proposals for research to stop the spread of disinformation online.

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Fundraising

Jeff Bezos Gives $100 Million Each to Van Jones of Dream Corps and José Andrés of World Central Kitchen

Also, the family that founded Hobby Lobby has given $20 million to an evangelical college in Alabama, and two brothers have donated $10 million to Elon University to rename its school of education after their mother.

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Careers

Education and Literacy Group Pratham USA Names First CEO

Also, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has chosen a new executive vice president of programs, and Paul Cheung of the Knight Foundation will take the helm of the Center for Public Integrity.

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Corporations

Major League Baseball Pledges $150 Million for Diversity, Service, and Education Programs

Also, three major foundations commit $250 million to the Justice and Mobility Fund to help formerly incarcerated people, and the Marcus Foundation is giving $60 million to pay for Jewish teenagers to travel to Israel.

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Fundraising

Updated: Analysis of MacKenzie Scott’s Charitable Giving Shows Where the Money Is Going

Of the 798 recipients, so far 205 have disclosed how much they have received.

By Maria Di Mento and M.J. Prest

Careers

Kellogg Foundation V.P. Will Lead Living Cities

Also, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has named the executive director of its Creatives Rebuild New York program, and the Smithsonian Institution has tapped the next director of the National Museum of African Art.

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Corporations

Helen Diller Family Foundation Commits $300 Million for Housing at the U. of California at Berkeley

Also, the Knight and Annenberg Foundations jointly gave $6 million to create a memorial in Washington dedicated to slain journalists, and the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation recruited teenagers to select the recipients of $4.1 million in grants for after-school programs.

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

Careers

Patrick Gaspard Will Take the Helm of the Center for American Progress

Also, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles named a rabbi as its next CEO, and the Simons Foundation has selected an astrophysicist to succeed Marilyn Simons as president.

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions