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
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 Reporter
The Pandemic Has Revealed the Weaknesses in Our Democracy
Philanthropy’s focus is rightfully on urgent needs, but we must also do all we can to ensure that the voices of those hurt most by the coronavirus are heard in the 2020 elections and census count.
By Gary D. Bass
Contributor
Rockefeller Foundation Commits $65 Million to Aid Low-Earning American Families (Grants Roundup)
Also, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has received $36 million to expand mental-health care for young people, and Bridgewater Associates has sent $5 million to support medical aid for people with coronavirus in China.
By M.J. Prest
Contributor
Leader Helps Mobilize Asian Americans for Big Impact in Elections
EunSook Lee, executive director of the Asian American Pacific Islander Civic Engagement Fund, has accelerated grant making to groups to be ready ahead of the primaries and the conventions.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Most Nonprofits Lack Recession Plan
Only 33 percent of nonprofits say they have a plan to deal with a recession, according to a survey by the Center for Effective Philanthropy. Few have talked with the grant makers who fund them about how an economic downturn might affect their support.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
Walton Family Foundation Commits $20 Million for Arkansas State Park
Also, Morgan Stanley is giving $20 million to seven mental-health charities that serve young people, and the MacArthur Foundation donated $8.1 million to reduce incarceration in five counties nationwide.
By M.J. Prest
Contributor
Grant Makers Push for More Trust in Relationships With Nonprofits
Less paperwork. Simplified ways of measuring impact. More general operating support. It’s all part of the Trust Based Philanthropy Project’s plan for changing the relationship between foundations and grantees.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Data-Driven Program Evaluation Hurts Equity Efforts, Say Critics
Foundations should rethink the way they measure success if they want to achieve progress, say advocates for change.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Syracuse U. Gets $75 Million From the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Also, the Center at Sierra Health Foundation is accepting applications for $20 million in grants to help young people battling addiction in California.
By M.J. Prest
Contributor
The next downturn — whenever it comes — will likely be different from those in the past.
By Ben Gose
Contributor
The Year’s Big Stories in the Nonprofit World That Point to Key Changes Ahead
Concerns about tainted money, undue pressure on fundraisers, the inequality gap, and the role of philanthropy in fixing democracy are among the issues we covered in the past year that will continue as major forces in the year ahead.
By Chronicle Staff
Contributor
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 Reporter
Family Foundations Shift Focus Toward Economic Equality
The shift is most notable for newer family-run grant makers, while older ones tend to focus on education.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
Network of Community Foundations Hopes to Attract ‘Big Bet’ Money From Foundations
The big winners, if the movement gains traction, would be small nonprofits with a history of working successfully with community foundations to close the “opportunity gap.”
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter
Fun With Gerrymandering: Mapping Software Gives Ordinary Citizens a Lesson in Civics
A group of seven grant makers in Pennsylvania recently ventured into some unusual territory for most of them: the arcane world of congressional redistricting.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter