How One Family Foundation Is Evolving to Refocus on Racial Equity
The Seattle grant maker weathered conflicting views among trustees and upended traditional practices to change where it gives money and improve its relationship with grantees.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
To Achieve Racial Justice in Philanthropy, We Must Invest in Fundraising and Make It Inclusive
Foundations only represent a small segment of philanthropy, but many fundraisers assign an outsize amount of clout to grant makers.
By Armando Enrique Zumaya
Contributor
How to Create a Culture of Inclusive Fundraising
Many big-gift fundraisers still overlook donors from a variety of demographic groups, even though about 14 percent of U.S. millionaires are from minority groups. That number will likely grow.
By Lisa Schohl
Director, Nonprofit Learning
Attacking Traditional Philanthropy Is Wrongheaded and Out of Sync With Most Americans’ Giving
Systemic social and economic change is not and should not be the primary focus of philanthropic support. Expanding the reach of our nation’s great charitable institutions and supporting local causes is still the best way to help people achieve the American Dream.
By Howard Husock
Contributor
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
Google.org Will Award $25 Million for Innovative Ideas That Empower Women
The winners of the Impact Challenge for Women and Girls, which will be announced in the fall, will each receive between $300,000 and $2 million.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
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
Covering the Role of Women in the Nonprofit World Is ‘Timely and Necessary’
A nonprofit consultant questions why the Chronicle assigned a man to report a January cover story on women.
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
Former Leader of Disaster Nonprofit Says He Was Fired Over Diversity Efforts
A lawsuit pending in a U.S. District Court claims that Gregory Forrester, former CEO of National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, was terminated after he pushed to direct more help toward smaller organizations led by people of color.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
A Close Look at the Pooled Funds That Are Shaking Up Philanthropy
Organizers of pooled funds and other efforts to get foundations to collaborate have used them as a test bed for changes they’d like to see in philanthropy.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Growth in Pooled Funds, Spurred by Racial-Justice Protests and the Pandemic, Could Last
Over the past year dozens of new funds and collaborative fundraising campaigns have sprung up to support groups working to end white supremacy, respond to those hurt by the pandemic, and safeguard the voting process.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Foundations Pledge to Direct More Grants to Climate Groups Led by People of Color
A group of wealthy donors is urging large grant makers urging to steer at least 30 percent of their climate change grants to groups led by people of color.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
‘Hate Groups’ Received Millions From 351 Charities and Foundations, Chronicle Review Finds
Foundations and donor-advised funds directed more than $50 million in charitable funds from 2013 and 2018 to nonprofits designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
Investigation Finds No ‘Actionable’ Sexual Bias at United Way but Urges Better Policies
The report came after several women, including a chief marketing officer, said they were retaliated against for complaining about sexual harassment and discrimination.
By dan.parks
Contributor
How 2 White Leaders of Big Foundations Are Tackling Racial Equity
John Palfrey of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Larry Kramer of Hewlett have started big grant making efforts to curb racism and working to understand, as Kramer puts it, how they are “part of the question and part of the problem.”
By Keecha Harris
Contributor