You Say the Arts Don’t Matter? A 10-Year, $150 Million Venture Set Out to Prove You Wrong
ArtPlace America, funded by some of the country’s largest grant makers, argued that arts and culture are community builders and not just some esoteric good.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
How an Artist Translated Science and Tragedy to Help a Town Fight Toxic Pollution
Federal officials committed to a $20 million remediation of contaminated groundwater in Ashland, Mass., after an experiential art project illustrated what lay beneath homes and businesses.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Philanthropist Couple Urges Wealthy Donors to Give Now
Jennifer and David Risher started the #HalfMyDAF campaign to encourage people to give more from their donor-advised funds. They also support Worldreader, a nonprofit David co-founded to provide books to young people in underserved places.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Jackie and Mike Bezos Give $166 Million to NYU Langone Health for Low-Income Families
Plus, the Obama Foundation, University of Notre Dame, the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, and other nonprofits received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Bezos Makes Gifts to Obama Foundation and NYU Medical Center
Former President Barack Obama’s foundation has received a $100 million donation from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. which it says is the largest individual contribution it has received to date. Also New York University’s medical center said Monday it has received a $166 million gift from Bezos and his family.
Lessons From the U.N. Climate Meeting: Donors Need to Take Bigger and Bolder Action
Philanthropy must acknowledge its past mistakes and deploy a much smarter and more strategic approach to addressing the environmental catastrophes threatening our planet.
By Leslie Johnston
Contributor
Ford Foundation to Give $25 Million to Support Workers Who Lack Labor Safeguards
Also, the World Central Kitchen is putting $50 million into a climate disaster fund and aims to raise $1 billion more, and the social-media company that operates Snapchat has given $10 million to address racial-equity gaps in computing education.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
High-Powered Effort to Help Resettle Afghan Refugees Awards $8.3 Million in Grants
Officials from the Bush and Obama administrations started Welcome.US, which aims to make it easier for people and businesses to plug into efforts to welcome refugees.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
To Stop Gun Violence, Grant Makers Need to Follow the Covid-19 Collaborative Playbook
Rather than trying to devise its own solutions, philanthropy should collectively support approaches that combine changes in government policy with community action.
By Burgundi Allison and DAVID BROTHERTON
Some Grant-Making Changes Made During Pandemic Are Going Away
Most foundations shifted the way they made grants, but only 21 percent have kept all of those changes in 2021.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Local Foundations Need Solid Local Journalism if They Hope to Advance Their Missions
Local philanthropic funding can transform journalism in a community, but too few donors make the connection between the issues they care about and maintaining vibrant newsrooms in their cities and towns.
By Josh Stearns and Teresa Gorman
Salk Institute Lands $100 Million From Qualcomm Founder
Plus, the Baltimore financier Bill Miller gave $50 million to the Santa Fe Institute to expand its work in complex systems science, and Mike and Maria Repole gave $50 million to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Philanthropies Planning a Nonprofit Newsroom in Cleveland
The effort will provide coverage of Cleveland and will kick off an effort to help fill a void left by the shrinking of news organizations in Ohio.
84 Percent of Donors Plan to Give the Same or More to Charity in 2021, Survey Finds
In a new survey from fundraising technology company Classy, more than one-third of millennial and Generation Z respondents said they were more likely to make a monthly gift instead of a one-time donation because of the heightened level of need in society today.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Charities and Foundations Spent $352 Million on Disaster Efforts in 2019
Half went to relief and response projects, while preparing for catastrophic events was the second most popular use of nonprofit funds. Still, government spending is far more, accounting for over $29 billion.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Nonprofits Should Consider the Potential Costs of Reducing Their Climate Impact
Nonprofits, unlike private companies, need to realize that trying to reduce their own greenhouse-gas emissions means fewer resources are available to care for the people they serve.
By Daniel Stein
Contributor