Covid-19 Lesson for a Grant Maker: Listening and Understanding Matters (Dispatches)
Moving from giving help to asking for help is a lesson we are learning in the pandemic — and it should change us for the better.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Philanthropy Can Do a Lot to Help Hard-Hit Small Businesses and Nonprofits
The businesses and nonprofits that will suffer the most are small and often rooted in neighborhoods with large numbers of people of color. Foundation and endowment capital could make a big difference in their survival.
By JOHN TYLER
Contributor
How Foundations Can Mobilize Their Staffs to Do the Most Good in This Crisis
Give people room to focus on their health and families and what matters most in this moment. This is no time for rigid formulas, so let people innovate and adapt.
By Greg Bunch
Contributor
Healing America After Covid-19 Through National Service
An expanded service corps could give the jobless a way to help hard-hit nonprofits and communities recover — and unite a divided nation.
By Shirley Sagawa
Contributor
Philanthropy’s Stimulus Plan Must Bolster Democracy
Safe voting, strong journalism, and the protection of civil liberties are key areas for foundations and big donors to support.
By JOE GOLDMAN
Contributor
How Board Members Can Do the Most Good in the Pandemic
The toll on nonprofits will cause layoffs and closures, but steady leadership from the board can avert the worst situations. Here are steps to take now.
By Laurie Hirschfeld Zeller
Contributor
In This Crisis, Philanthropy Must Tackle 3 Existential Challenges All at Once
Foundations are good at helping communities survive a tragedy, but restoring a sense of normalcy and reimagining a more just world at the other end of the pandemic will take bold, collective action.
By GRANT OLIPHANT
Contributor
Save Lives Now, Grant Makers and Donors
The holdings in donor-advised funds are worth more than $120 billion, enough to make a big difference if combined with generous spending from the nation’s foundations.
By Alan M. Cantor
Reporter
How Foundations Can Help Groups Find New Ways to Boost Census Participation
The issue is especially pressing for Latinos, who are often undercounted and are showing low response rates already.
Pluralism in democratic governance has been key to the strength and endurance of the American republic, but in the pandemic that we now face, might we even begin to ask whether federalism can also kill.