Working With Local Government Leaders Is the Right Path for Philanthropy
Foundations can serve as a neutral host in gathering key players from around a region and also fund research that drives decisions and builds support for projects.
As Attacks on Reproductive Rights Grow, Philanthropy Needs to Step Up Support for a Counternarrative
Well-funded abortion disinformation campaigns have become a basis for increasingly restrictive state laws. Grant makers should join forces with a cadre of scrappy nonprofits to fight back.
By Nina Sachdev
Contributor
To Tackle Vaccine Hesitancy, Philanthropy Must Get Over Its Religion Hesitancy
Congregations and faith-based nonprofits are an untapped resource for persuading more people to get vaccines, but they need much greater philanthropic support.
By EBOO PATEL and Robert P. Jones
Potent New Fundraising Tools Shouldn’t Be Abandoned When the Covid Crisis Ends
Technological innovations embraced out of necessity during the pandemic helped nonprofits reach more donors and opened up possibilities for more effective fundraising in the future.
By Lisa Hartsock and Kate Fassett
Philanthropic giving can never match the power and purse strings of the federal government to address centuries of systemic racism. But we can insist that the Biden administration and Congress rise to the task.
By John H. Jackson
Contributor
Philanthropists Across the Political Divide Must Work Together to Cure Extremism
A pandemic of hate will destroy our democratic institutions unless we can put aside our differences and devise a cohesive plan for treating this disease. Here’s what grant makers can do next.
By Sarah Ruger
Contributor
Why Foundations Benefit When They Focus on What Nonprofits Need Most
In a new book of essays, grant makers and nonprofits share what happened when they loosened the strings on grants and offered generous, multiyear support and focused on the experience of grantees, not the pedigrees of their leaders.
By Lowell Weiss
Contributor
It’s Not Advice My Grantees Need. They Need My Access to Power and Money.
Too often financial supporters think they are helping by making recommendations to people who already know how to carry out nonprofit missions. Let’s focus on what we have to give that truly matters.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Analysis of Money Flowing to Hate Groups Is One-Sided
A Chronicle study of money flowing from donor-advised funds and foundations failed to separate nonprofits that advocate hate from those that advance unpopular views, writes a top executive of the Philanthropy Roundtable.
In the Covid Era, Nonprofits Have No Choice but to Go Online
Nonprofits will face intense competition, staffing challenges, and new pressures from grant makers and donors as they are forced to accelerate their shift to a digital world.
By John MacIntosh
Contributor