How Family Giving Can Bring About the Change America Needs Now
By embracing more risk , stepping up their donations, and changing how they interact with nonprofits, family funds have the potential to be key to the recovery and reset ahead.
By Michael Moody and Danielle LaJoie
Foundations Should Examine Practices That Prevent Them From Giving Grantees More Power
Philanthropic organizations say they want to embrace bottom-up approaches to grantmaking, but a series of donor workshops reveals how entrenched ideas and policies create obstacles to such reforms, says a foundation consultant.
By Renee Karibi-Whyte
Contributor
Plan to Accelerate Giving Would Have Opposite Effect (Letter)
An idea floated by the philanthropist John Arnold and law professor Ray Madoff would take away all the advantages of donor-advised funds and crimp the role of family members in running their foundations.
By baroneditorial
Reporter
Foundations That Are Serious About Achieving Equity Need to Rethink How They Work
Ditching old ideas, structures, and titles, like the program-officer term that connotes people of wealth commanding others to take action, will help us do more to meet our aspirations.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Foundations Are Breaking All the Rules in the Pandemic. They Need to Keep Doing That.
Meeting together on Zoom, the walls that hobbled collaboration are falling. How can we keep the spirit going and make grantees a central part of every aspect of our operations?
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Our Nonprofit Could Have Done Better to Measure Grant-Making Data on Race
A study on community foundations released by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy failed to describe what was being measured. Here are ways it says we can all move forward to advance understanding of grant making that benefits Blacks.
Foundations Need to Dig Deeper Into Their Endowments and Give More in 2021
Philanthropic organizations have increased grant making, but often those increases are quite modest. Their approach doesn’t take into account market or social realities.
By David Salem
Contributor
Philanthropy Can Help Americans Understand Why Stomping Out Racism Benefits All
Too often people fear they will lose benefits when others gain. The exact opposite is true, as data proves, so it’s time for foundations to drive that message home.
By Vincent Robinson
Contributor
To Help the Formerly Incarcerated, Support Change at the Intersection of Health and Justice
If philanthropists are genuinely committed to anti-racism, improving public health, and ensuring justice for all, helping formerly incarcerated people integrate successfully into communities is an excellent place to start.
By Paula Thompson and Victoria Palacio
Easy Steps Charities and Foundations Can Take to Safeguard Election Day
Nonprofits can use their skills in mobilizing volunteers to serve as poll workers, their power with mailing houses, and their resources to arrange free rides for voters who can’t afford to get to the polls — all important steps in a time of social distancing.
By Jamison Shipman and Garrett Pratt