9 Leading Nonprofit Groups Urge Foundations to Dig Into Endowments to Support Charities
“The strength of a funder’s grantees at the end of this crisis will be a much better measure of the significance of a foundation than the size of its endowment,” their letter says.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Grant Maker Dilemma: Spend More Now or Protect Shrinking Endowments?
Some are ramping up spending when nonprofits need it most, but others are keeping a watchful eye on their ability to continue spending in the future.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Climate-Resilience Projects Receive $43 Million From Coast to Coast (Grants Roundup)
Also, the NFL has committed $35 million across 10 coronavirus-relief groups, and the NYC Covid-19 Response & Impact Fund is now accepting applications from arts and human-service groups in New York to receive $75 million in emergency grants.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Foundations Adopt Policies to Move More Money Faster, and With Fewer Restrictions
The coronavirus pandemic is pushing grant makers to do things differently. Some in philanthropy hope the changes stick long after the current crises ends.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
A Simple, Low-Cost Way for Nonprofits and Foundations to Curb the Coronavirus Crisis
Follow the model of the Gates Foundation, which says when there is no vaccine, communications is a vaccine. And stop taking up airtime now with messages that keep the public from paying attention to the urgent need to stay home.
By Sean Gibbons
Contributor
Leaders Argue That Nonprofits Need Government Aid
With social-service needs looming so large, private aid won’t be able to keep up.
By dan.parks
Contributor
What’s Straining Community Funds Everywhere
They need to step up their game to compete with what feels like countless options available to donors.
By Marc Gunther
Contributor
How This Crisis May Upend Grant Making for Good
A pledge by hundreds of grant makers to loosen or eliminate restrictions on their funding and trust their nonprofit partners more is long overdue, says a Ford Foundation official.
By Kathy Reich
Contributor
How Community Funds Can Thrive
Stand for something. Play to your strengths. Communicate who you are.
By MARC GUNTHER
Contributor
Still, the unprecedented calamity means that many foundations are changing how they give and adding new flexibility and more general operating support.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Nicole Taylor is trying to turn it around after a workplace scandal — and now she must deal with the coronavirus scare and economic downturn. (See an article from Recode on Monday about a new effort the fund has undertaken to persuade donors to earmark up to 5 percent of their advised funds for pandemic relief.)
By Marc Gunther
Contributor
Climate Change Is Important, but Calls for Philanthropy to Do Lots More Ring Hollow
It’s time for foundation leaders to abandon inflammatory rhetoric and worst-case projections, writes James Piereson, head of the William Simon Foundation.
Amid the Covid-19 Crisis, Foundations Should Stop Treating the 5% Payout as Holy Writ
Understanding how perpetuity became the default for philanthropies can help grant makers rethink their attitudes toward giving now versus giving later, especially in a time of catastrophe.
By BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Contributor
Some of the grant making recently announced to address health, education, and economic needs in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, and new grant opportunities to apply for immediate funding.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Philanthropy Should Support Frontline Workers During Pandemic and Beyond
Supermarket checkout clerks, hospital custodians, day care workers, and many other low-wage employees are putting themselves at risk to save lives. Here’s how to help the everyday heroes.
By ERIC KESSLER
Contributor
James Carville on Why Foundation CEOs Need to Fund a ‘Wartime Communications’ Force
In the lead up to World War I, America created a Committee on Public Information which quickly signed on advertising executives, university professors, commercial artists, and film producers. Influential foundation executives should create the same kind of effort now.
By James Carville
Contributor