What to Do When the President Calls You ‘Corrupt’
Recent White House rhetorical attacks against nonprofits are unprecedented. Will donors listen?
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Why the Fight for DEI Should Take the Long View — Back to the Founding Fathers
PolicyLink president Ashleigh Gardere on philanthropy, nonprofits, and the opportunity for a “new founding” of the nation.
By Chronicle Staff
Contributor
Why Philanthropy’s Democracy Talk Turns People Off
Here are the words that leave average Americans cold — and the language that could connect them to the billion-dollar fight to strengthen the country.
By Matt Watkins
Contributor
How to Recruit and Lead Staff Who Truly Know Your Community
Staff with lived experience can strengthen your organization — if you hire and support them well.
By Bobbi Dempsey
Contributor
The Church Americans Often Mock Could Teach Us to Heal
After the Kirk assassination in Utah and the attack on a Mormon church, the Mormon commitment to serving others emerges as a powerful answer to hate, division, and violence.
By Eboo Patel
Contributor
Think Globally, Act Neighborly: 6 Small Steps to Get Big Change
Advice about how micro-efforts by nonprofits — even street festivals or block parties — can help turn neighborhoods into engines of the big change philanthropy seeks.
By Seth D. Kaplan
Contributor
Tim Shriver on Philanthropy and the ‘Vortex of Contempt’
The chair of Special Olympics and co-founder of the Dignity Index talks with The Commons about the Charlie Kirk assassination and nonprofit work to rid our disagreements of hate and outrage.
By Chronicle Staff
Contributor
The Counterculture That Could Stop Political Violence
Amid the rage that followed Kirk’s assassination, young people are building a hopeful movement that could push the country away from violence and toward the change philanthropy seeks.
By Manu Meel
Contributor
Big Funders Pour $56 Million Into Civics at a Fractured Moment
Ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday, the effort aims to rekindle learning, engagement, and action through support of a growing network of civic organizations.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
This Foundation Measures Its Impact by One Number. Is That a Model for Success?
The Lumina Foundation threw virtually all its resources at changing one metric. Now, with its holy grail in sight, it’s making the goal even harder to reach.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects