We Should Have Tough Conversations About Justice and Inequality
Foundations need to move away from simply writing checks and find new ways to lift up and support the organizations and people they fund.
By Elizabeth Alexander
Contributor
Bezos Day One Fund Gives $98.5 Million to Address Homelessness in 23 States (Grants Roundup)
Also, the Goizueta Foundation gave $30 million to Emory University, and the Packard Foundation gave $5 million to Hispanics in Philanthropy to help migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Lego Foundation Gives Second $100 Million Grant for Play-Based Programs
The announcement comes a year after the foundation gave $100 million to a collaboration between the Sesame Street Workshop and the International Rescue Committee to help Syrian refugee children.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
How Philanthropy Can Shape the 21st Century Gospel of Wealth: a Move From Generosity to Justice
Thoughts on how to respond to this moment of polarization, divisiveness, and inequality.
By Darren Walker
Contributor
Achieving Justice for All Should Command Philanthropy’s Attention in 2020 Elections
Foundations are putting a lot of money into election security and other issues, but strengthening democracy only matters if everyone has equal access to opportunity.
By John H. Jackson
Contributor
Sue Desmond-Hellmann to Step Down at Gates Foundation, Citing Health Needs
Mark Suzman, the foundation’s chief strategy officer and president of global policy and advocacy, will take over as chief executive on February 1.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
New Group Aims to Boost Interest in and Efficacy of Impact Investing
A group of nine private and corporate foundations and family offices have pooled $12 million to help ensure that the investments are truly serving the public good and that support for the practice grows.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Multiple Donors Pool $2.6 Billion to Eradicate Polio Worldwide (Grants Roundup)
Also, the Open Society Foundations has committed $830 million to expand an academic-freedom partnership between Bard College and Central European University, and the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation is giving $111 million for anti-poverty research at the University of Notre Dame.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Grant Makers Face Uphill Battle as They Push for a Kinder Form of Capitalism
The Ford Foundations and others have made headway in their efforts to get companies to care about more than shareholder returns, but doing so requires reversing decades of policies and popular economic theories.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Foundations Make Grants as if They’re Wall Street Day Traders
Systems change can take a decade or longer. So why do foundations keep making one- or two-year grants and focusing on holistic solutions?
By Tim Hanstad
Contributor
What Foundations Can Do Amid the Fervor Over Wealth Taxes
Tighten governance rules for foundations run by living donors, double the amount foundations must give, and pour more endowment money into investments that advance the grant maker’s mission.
Rural America Doesn’t Fit Into Philanthropy’s Guidelines. Here’s How to Change That.
Don’t tell us to use telemedicine where broadband doesn’t work or encourage us to use bicycles in our mountainous region. And we have small budgets that make metrics a problem.
A Push to Get Grants That Pay the Full Cost of Doing Good
The Full Cost Project brings nonprofit leaders and grant makers together to learn and have frank discussions about the money needed to get results.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Trust in Grantees, Not Command and Control
John Esterle and Pia Infante champion an approach to grant making that give grantees more power in decision making. A growing number of foundations are taking notice.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Grace and a ‘Safe Space’ for Dialogue Help Minneapolis Confront Racial Inequity
Chanda Smith Baker runs a series of events that bring residents together to discuss difficult issues like police brutality, white supremacy, and the criminal-justice system.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Philanthropy Can Reshape Education in Ways That Will Stand the Test of Time
As technology transforms lives, cash and creativity can create new institutions that reflect today’s culture and will be as recognizable 100 years from now as Stanford University is today.