As Homicide Rates Surge, Momentum Grows for Community Violence-Prevention Solutions
Millions of dollars are flowing to nonprofits that typically struggle to keep the lights on.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Philanthropy can help address immediate humanitarian needs and help head off misinformation campaigns about Ukraine and the conflict, while also boosting long-term investments in more equitable and diverse approaches to national security and foreign policy.
By Alexandra Toma
Contributor
Paul Farmer’s Approach Shaped Our Foundation and Embodied the True Meaning of Giving
As the founder of Partners in Health, he understood that helping those in need meant living in their world and listening and learning from them. He set a standard that all in philanthropy should follow.
By Wendy Schmidt
Contributor
Let’s Celebrate Black Women After Black History Month Ends by Giving Them More Funding
Black women continue to be left behind in areas such as economic opportunity and maternal health. Philanthropy needs to provide more money to advance the Black women who are today’s grassroots leaders, not just commemorate yesterday’s heroes.
By Elizabeth Barajas-Roman
Contributor
Will More in Philanthropy Adopt the MacKenzie or Melinda Approach to Giving?
Two women — Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott — are rewriting the rules of philanthropy. Their approaches suggest a new continuum of giving that should set the standard for the rest of philanthropic world.
By Jamie Allison and Kristin Hayden
Google.org Donates $60 Million for Technology Education and Job Training
Also, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has given $120 million to 38 grantees, and Lever for Change and the LEGO Foundation have committed $143 million in grant opportunities through their Build a World of Play Challenge.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $21 Million to UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management
Also, the Richard O. Jacobson Foundation has committed $70 million to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is accepting applications from New York artists for its $125 million Creatives Rebuild New York program.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
5 Academic Institutions Get $40 Million to Promote Rethinking About the Economy
The Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network are supporting five institutions to challenge today’s notions about the role of markets and governments. They say more foundations are about to join them.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
$20 Million Contribution Seeks to Spark Donor-Advised Fund Gifts to Groups Led by People of Color
The Kataly Foundation made the grant to a group that will require donors to give at least 10 percent of their assets each year.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
A new Ford Foundation-backed project aims to mend toxic societal divisions that threaten philanthropy’s most fundamental work, including its ability to bring people together to address enormous challenges such as systemic racism and climate change.
By HILARY PENNINGTON and Mark Freeman
Goldman Sachs Foundation to Donate Up to $250,000 to 50 Black Women-Led Nonprofits
The new effort will provide unrestricted funds to groups working in health care, education, housing, digital connectivity, job creation and several other areas.
By Kristen Griffith
Contributor
The organization has long been pushing donors to direct money toward nonprofits they may have never heard of before — small charities working to rebuild communities. Its peers around the country have taken notice.
By dan.parks
Contributor
MacKenzie Scott’s Investment in the Global Queer and Transgender Movement Is a Game Changer
For years LGBTIQ groups have received scraps from philanthropy despite continuing mistreatment and a growing backlash against the community worldwide. Scott’s generous support for groups like ours shows why giving more is critical.
By Katie Hultquist
Contributor
Also, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation gave $15 million to develop a pediatric mental-health program in Greece and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative opens a grant competition for biomedical researchers who advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific fields.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Nonprofits That Serve Low- and Moderate-Income People Show Fewer Signs of Covid Disruption
Thirty-four percent of those charities say they continue to suffer “significant disruption” amid the pandemic, down from 71 percent during the peak of their pandemic-era distress, according to a study from the Federal Reserve.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Persistent Myths About Disaster Giving Continue to Create Major Funding Shortfalls
Philanthropy stepped up in a big way to address the pandemic, but its support for relief and recovery efforts following other climate-driven and humanitarian disasters remains stunningly low. Grant makers need to break out of old patterns that stand in the way of increased giving.
By Regine A. Webster
Contributor