What Philanthropy Can Do Now to Promote Education Equity After the Pandemic
As we learn what technology can do — and what it can’t — to improve learning, we can ensure that precious education dollars are spent in ways that do the most for the neediest youngsters.
By Celine Coggins
Contributor
What Nonprofits Should Know About the $2.2 Trillion Federal Covid-19 Aid
Nonprofits and those they serve will soon be able to access urgent types of emergency relief.
By Roger Low and Karen Quarles
A Simple, Low-Cost Way for Nonprofits and Foundations to Curb the Coronavirus Crisis
Follow the model of the Gates Foundation, which says when there is no vaccine, communications is a vaccine. And stop taking up airtime now with messages that keep the public from paying attention to the urgent need to stay home.
By Sean Gibbons
Contributor
Coronavirus Diaries: a Priority on Consistency for a Nonprofit’s Clients
Nicole Lynn Lewis, CEO of Generation Hope, which supports teen parents pursuing college degrees and their young children, says it’s important for people to understand the impact Covid is having on the families her group serves.
How This Crisis May Upend Grant Making for Good
A pledge by hundreds of grant makers to loosen or eliminate restrictions on their funding and trust their nonprofit partners more is long overdue, says a Ford Foundation official.
By Kathy Reich
Contributor
Climate Change Is Important, but Calls for Philanthropy to Do Lots More Ring Hollow
It’s time for foundation leaders to abandon inflammatory rhetoric and worst-case projections, writes James Piereson, head of the William Simon Foundation.
In the Pandemic, Legal and Financial Professionals Must Step Up to Help Nonprofits
As fundraising slows and needs increase, pro bono contributions of expertise can do a lot to help nonprofits, writes a bankruptcy lawyer who serves on the boards of several prominent organizations.
Amid the Covid-19 Crisis, Foundations Should Stop Treating the 5% Payout as Holy Writ
Understanding how perpetuity became the default for philanthropies can help grant makers rethink their attitudes toward giving now versus giving later, especially in a time of catastrophe.
By BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Contributor
Philanthropy Should Support Frontline Workers During Pandemic and Beyond
Supermarket checkout clerks, hospital custodians, day care workers, and many other low-wage employees are putting themselves at risk to save lives. Here’s how to help the everyday heroes.
By ERIC KESSLER
Contributor
James Carville on Why Foundation CEOs Need to Fund a ‘Wartime Communications’ Force
In the lead up to World War I, America created a Committee on Public Information which quickly signed on advertising executives, university professors, commercial artists, and film producers. Influential foundation executives should create the same kind of effort now.
By James Carville
Contributor