Why Foundations Should Connect Policy Groups to the People They Seek to Help
Without that connection, grant makers and policy groups risk focusing on the wrong priorities, building weaker or misguided arguments and making gains harder to achieve and wins less secure.
By BETSY KREBS
Contributor
Wells Fargo Pledges $1 Billion for Affordable Housing
The financial-services giant’s Wednesday announcement means a shift away from narrowly targeted efforts to improve diversity to address “systemic” issues that hurt minorities.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Lesley Hoffarth had spent her entire career with the Missouri Department of Transportation until Forest Park Forever called.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Big Jewish Nonprofits Can’t Keep Letting Only the Ultrawealthy Call the Shots
Organizations have failed to reach out to Jews who look like the rest of America — Middle Eastern Jews, Russian-speaking Jews, Jew with disabilities, Israeli-American Jews, Jews of color, LGBTQ Jews, and millennial Jews are largely ignored.
By Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim
Contributor
Forging Genuine Human Connections Is Essential for Nonprofit Communications
Visits to health clinics, homeless shelters, museums, and other such places better convey ideas and plans for community-based change than digital communication alone so we need to invite journalists and others to see philanthropic work in action.
By Andy Burness
Contributor
I’m a Morehouse Grad, and the $40 Million Loan Pledge Doesn’t Deserve So Much Criticism
It’s fair to question why college students have so much debt, but while we all work to change systems of inequity, philanthropic gestures can change lives today.
By Habitat For Humanity International
Contributor
Rhea Suh, president, says the current administration has made deregulation of the environment its pet project.
Listen Up, Grant Makers: Radio Is a Hot Way to Advance Knowledge and Culture
More Americans are listening to the medium than watching television — and they are tuning into in-depth investigations and a vast range of music.
By Vince Stehle
Contributor
One Foundation CEO’s Plan to Respond to Today’s Outrages. What’s Yours?
For too long, philanthropy’s anger has been diluted, blunted, and bludgeoned by a relentless barrage on our sense of basic humanity and civic well-being — fueled by race-, gender-, LGBTQ-, and immigrant-centric attacks flying under the guise of patriotism.
By Robert K. Ross
Contributor
Critiques of Philanthropy Are Important, but Some Have Entered the Realm of the Absurd
Even Sunday’s stirring announcement from Robert Smith that he’ll pay off the loans of Morehouse’s graduating class was greeted with reflexive skepticism. We need more of that kind of compassionate giving, not lambasting.
By PHIL BUCHANAN
Contributor