Blue Meridian Executive Offers Advice for Donors on Connecting With Effective Nonprofits
Tiffany Cooper Gueye, COO at Blue Meridian Partners, explains how donors can better understand what works at nonprofits.
New Campaigns Seek to Generate More Than $1 Billion for Women and Girls
Three new efforts arrive less than six months after the pre-eminent grant maker in the field announced it would shutter two anti-violence and civil-rights programs.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
LaTosha Brown on the Fight Against Voter Suppression and How Donors Can Help
The co-founder of Black Voters Matter discusses her organization’s efforts to strengthen democracy.
The Head of a Community Foundation on the Importance of Investing in Local Leaders
Welcome to the first episode of Giving Done Right, produced by the Center for Effective Philanthropy. In episode one, hosts Phil Buchanan and Grace Nicolette talk with Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation.
Wealthy Donors Make Big Gifts to Racial-Justice and Diversity Efforts
So far this year, rich donors have given at least $208.3 million to such efforts. The number of large gifts far exceeds previous years.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
How to Advance Pay Equity at Your Nonprofit
Experts share simple steps managers can take to ensure fair compensation for women, people of color, and other groups that are often underpaid.
By LISA SCHOHL
Contributor
How to Make Giving for Racial Justice Count
Investing in strengthening Black-led groups and focusing on justice as much as equity is critical, says Nat Chioke Williams, head of the Hill-Snowdon Foundation.
By Nat Chioke Williams
Contributor
Battling the Symptoms of Injustice, Not the Disease (Letter to the Editor)
The CEO of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation says urging foundations to support programs that ameliorate injustice instead of attacking the causes will never achieve a truly just society.
By Lori Bezahler
Contributor
Read, Watch, Listen: Sources of Inspiration for the Reimagining Philanthropy Series
This series draws from the work of many activists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars beyond those linked to in the individual articles. The list below offers a fuller picture of all those who inspired this series. For recommendations on more timely resources, follow Lucy Bernholz on Twitter.
By Lucy Bernholz
Contributor
Read, Watch, Listen: Sources of Inspiration for the Reimagining Philanthropy Series
This series draws from the work of many activists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars beyond those linked to in the individual articles. The list below offers a fuller picture of all those who inspired this series. For recommendations on more timely resources, follow Lucy Bernholz on Twitter.
By Lucy Bernholz
Contributor
Philanthropy Can’t Support the Common Good When It Supports White Supremacy (Letter to the Editor)
Nonprofits that are at the vanguard of advancing nationalism don’t deserve philanthropic support, write two leaders of advocacy groups.
Philanthropy Is Once Again Undermining Racial-Justice Movements
Grant makers should seek to avoid past mistakes — specifically the practice of using their influence to shape the agendas of vulnerable civil-rights organizations.
Community Foundations Say Report Undercounts Support for Groups That Serve Blacks
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy says that an examination of 25 community foundations found that a tiny share of their grants went to organizations that serve Black people. Several of the funds said the study starkly undercounted their giving to such nonprofits.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
‘Fund Us Like You Want Us to Win’
Foundations are putting unprecedented billions into racial equity, but some grant makers worry that too little is going to grassroots movements.
By Marc Gunther
Contributor
A nine-year examination of giving found that LGBT donors were very open to the idea of making a donation through their wills. It also found that women were more likely to ask about the diversity of a charity’s leadership and trans people were most likely to confine their donations to LGBT groups.
By Emily Haynes
Contributor