How Nonprofits Are Helping Workers Cope With Pandemic Fatigue
A year into the pandemic, nonprofit workers are struggling. Here’s what leaders and foundations can do to help.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Technology Entrepreneur Nahum Guzik Gives $25 Million for Cultural Center
Plus, the ACLU lands $15 million for a project focused on LGBTQ and HIV issues, and three medical centers, a university, and a private day school also receive big donations.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
New Program Trains Athletes in Advocacy and Philanthropy
Players on the Indiana Fever WNBA team are the first group in the new program designed to train professional athletes in how to choose a cause they care about and inspire people to support it.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Pooled Journalism Funds Could Help Save Local Newspapers
As investment companies like Alden Global Capital continue to decimate newsrooms, philanthropic and civic leaders should come together to provide the consistent resources they need to survive and thrive.
By Julie Sandorf
Contributor
Netflix Commits $100 Million to Support Artists of Color in TV and Film
Also, Bloomberg Philanthropies gave $150 million to establish the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, and Bank of America has awarded $10 million to create the Center for Black Entrepreneurship.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Nonprofits Welcome Billions in Pandemic Giving but Wonder if Support Will Last
Philanthropy’s response to Covid-19 in 2020 — $20.2 billion, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday — eclipsed giving to any other natural disasters in recent memory, and many grant makers dropped a wide range of restrictions they typically impose on their grantees.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
How Our Foundation Is Helping Small Businesses Make It Through the Pandemic
Providing no-strings-attached funding to neighborhood businesses will save jobs, bolster the local economy, and offer hope to struggling entrepreneurs. Now we need more grant makers to take on this task.
By Jane Wurwand
Contributor
Our Nation Cannot Heal Without First Acknowledging Who Made Us Sick
Too many of our ultrarich citizens and philanthropists have enabled, abetted, or turned a blind eye to extremism.
Working With Local Government Leaders Is the Right Path for Philanthropy
Foundations can serve as a neutral host in gathering key players from around a region and also fund research that drives decisions and builds support for projects.
As Attacks on Reproductive Rights Grow, Philanthropy Needs to Step Up Support for a Counternarrative
Well-funded abortion disinformation campaigns have become a basis for increasingly restrictive state laws. Grant makers should join forces with a cadre of scrappy nonprofits to fight back.
By Nina Sachdev
Contributor
Bill and Melinda Gates Say Digital Giving Can Democratize Philanthropy
They also highlighted winners of their foundation’s Reimagine Charitable Giving Challenge, which awarded as much as $100,000 to ideas for ways that help small-dollar donors support their own or other communities in need.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Dallas Mavericks Basketball Team Awards Emergency Grants for Winter Storm Relief in Tex.
Also, the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation gave $115 million to 400 charities across New York State, and Goldman Sachs awarded $25 million to teach job skills in finance to students at eight historically Black colleges and universities.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
To Tackle Vaccine Hesitancy, Philanthropy Must Get Over Its Religion Hesitancy
Congregations and faith-based nonprofits are an untapped resource for persuading more people to get vaccines, but they need much greater philanthropic support.
By EBOO PATEL and Robert P. Jones
Philanthropic giving can never match the power and purse strings of the federal government to address centuries of systemic racism. But we can insist that the Biden administration and Congress rise to the task.
By John H. Jackson
Contributor
Venture Capital Executive Gives $80 Million to Expand Maternal Health Care in Bay Area
Plus, the Home Depot co-founders jointly gave the Gary Sinise Foundation $40 million, and Marymount Manhattan College received $25 million.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Grant Makers Use $3 Billion in Bond Offerings to Pump More to Charities
The California Endowment is among the latest entrants taking advantage of historically low interest rates to spend more now on grantees’ urgent needs.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations