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
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
Philanthropists Across the Political Divide Must Work Together to Cure Extremism
A pandemic of hate will destroy our democratic institutions unless we can put aside our differences and devise a cohesive plan for treating this disease. Here’s what grant makers can do next.
By Sarah Ruger
Contributor
Blackstone Promises $40 Million to Entrepreneurship Program for Students of Color
Also, the MacArthur Foundation has awarded $18 million to reduce over-incarceration in 15 U.S. cities and counties, and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation is giving $11 million in matching grants to re-open Jewish summer camps.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Why Foundations Benefit When They Focus on What Nonprofits Need Most
In a new book of essays, grant makers and nonprofits share what happened when they loosened the strings on grants and offered generous, multiyear support and focused on the experience of grantees, not the pedigrees of their leaders.
By Lowell Weiss
Contributor
New Name and Focus — on Strengthening Democracy — for a Longtime Nonprofit
Democracy in serious trouble, says Rajiv Vinnakota, and he is upending the mission of the 75-year-old Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to respond.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Elon Musk and Geneticist Arthur Riggs Each Give $100 Million
Plus, Arthur Blank donates $17 million to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, and several university land big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Analysis of Money Flowing to Hate Groups Is One-Sided
A Chronicle study of money flowing from donor-advised funds and foundations failed to separate nonprofits that advocate hate from those that advance unpopular views, writes a top executive of the Philanthropy Roundtable.
Fighting Covid in Africa, Curbing Inequities in Prenatal Health Care, and More
Also, the IKEA Foundation is giving $36.2 million to the International Rescue Committee and foundations have committed $100 million to advancing racial justice in California.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Philanthropy Should Join Forces With Mayors to Tackle the Nation’s Multiple Crises
Innovative city programs offer grant makers the breadth and scale they are looking for to tackle racial injustice, climate change, and other challenges.
By Anil Hurkadli
Contributor