It Started With Friends Helping a Friend. Now a Group Helps Thousands
The Challenged Athletes Foundation provides grants to people with physical disabilities, helping pay for adaptive sports equipment, providing training, and assisting with sports competition expenses.
By Yesica Balderrama
Contributor
What Happened to Big — and Local — Corporate Giving?
Companies are giving away a smaller share of profits than they used to. Where does that leave the nonprofits in their backyards?
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Grant Makers Add Students’ Mental Health to Priorities
Sixty-two percent of education grant makers said they were changing how they spend money to help parents and their families cope with stress and other challenges.
By Yesica Balderrama
Contributor
Few People of Color Lead in Art Museums. Can Philanthropy Change That?
Four philanthropies will spend more than $11 million to attract diverse talent to leadership roles in art museums.
By Kay Dervishi
Contributor
Statues of Confederate Generals Have Come Down. What Should Take Their Place?
The Mellon Foundation has launched a $250 million nationwide effort to rethink public art and memorials. Debates over it are just starting.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Can a Grant-Making Competition Stop Rich Donors From Getting Cold Feet?
In 2019, Lever for Change spun off from the MacArthur Foundation as a separate organization with an eye-popping goal: to drive $1 billion in philanthropic funding over four years to promising nonprofits.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Latino Charitable Giving Rates Drop Sharply — but That’s Not the Full Story
Donations to established nonprofits are sliding, but Hispanic households give to people in need at high rates.
By Kay Dervishi
Contributor
It’s Halftime for the Sustainable Development Goals. Are They Achievable?
Danish author Bjorn Lomborg argues the United Nations promised too much — and recommends 12 priorities.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
The Philanthropy That Jump-Started a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease
Since 2008, the Doris Duke Foundation has awarded $35 million to research scientists focused on the disease. Now several of them are bringing their gene therapy cure to clinical trial for FDA approval.
By Kay Dervishi
Contributor
How Joan Kroc’s Largess Changed the Salvation Army
Her unique brand of giving was wide-ranging, deeply personal — and often came as a surprise to the recipients.
By Lisa Napoli
Contributor