Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt Believes Science and Immersive Media Can Inspire Action for the Planet
Extended-reality technology can get people’s attention, the philanthropist says, and expose them to the “most wonderful things they’ve ever seen that are here on this planet.”
By James Pollard
Philanthropy Reporter, Associated Press
Fears of Authoritarianism Destroying Your Mental Health? A Community-Minded Solution Could Help
The answers to nonprofit leaders’ pervasive anxiety could be found in an African approach to healing.
By Cora Daniels
Contributor
With Federal Funding Slashed, This Nonprofit Aims to Reinvent Itself
About half of Jumpstart’s funding came from AmeriCorps, support the Trump administration recently cut.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Lurie Family Gives $50 Million to Back Autism Research
Plus, Vassar College received $28 million for its music programs, a Chicago art collector sold her collection to back quantum science, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center got $50 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Points of Light, Founded by Former President Bush, Aims to Double American Volunteerism by 2035
The group aspires to mobilize people to volunteer with nonprofits in the U.S. at a scale that only federal programs like AmeriCorps have in the past.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Why We Stopped Asking for General Operating Support
When a financially stable nonprofit vacuums up precious dollars, smaller organizations lose out.
By Mark S. Gold
Contributor
Pro-Immigration Forces Are Losing the Information War. Here’s How to Fight Back.
The far right has spent millions peddling its anti-immigrant narrative. Philanthropy can help tell a more powerful story about immigrants’ value to the nation.
By Beatriz Lopez
Contributor
60 Years of Government Outsourcing to Nonprofits Could Be Coming to an End
Claire Dunning, author of “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State” talks about how the 1964 war on poverty expanded federal grants to nonprofits to provide social services in low-income communities and how Trump appears to be dismantling that strategy.
By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer and Fellowship Director
Can GiveDirectly Show the Value of Universal Basic Income?
GiveDirectly has delivered more than $800 million to over 1.6 million people, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. Now it is experimenting with, and learning from, cash payments to recipients in the United States.
By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer and Fellowship Director
How the Nonprofit Change Reaction Gets Money to L.A. Households Impacted by Wildfires so Fast
The philanthropic group has distributed checks to 3,000 people across L.A. so far to help them meet immediate needs
By Gabriela Aoun Angueira
Associated Press
How Philanthropy Built, Lost, and Could Reclaim the A.I. Race
Philanthropy helped build artificial intelligence as a nonprofit research field. But as costs soar and corporations take over, donors and grantees are struggling to stay relevant.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Nonprofit Bridges the Technology Gap
Nashlie Sephus brought her passion for technology and experience as a tech evangelist at Amazon Web Services back to her hometown of Jackson, Miss., to bridge the technology gap and plant the seeds for a thriving community.
The Philanthropist Who Wants to Transform Voting
As the election looms, Bradley Tusk — a political strategist and venture capitalist — believes mobile voting is our best shot at reducing American polarization.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Back-to-Back Hurricanes Force Donors to Rethink Their Disaster Approach
The question is whether to fund long-term recovery and resilience rather than just immediate relief efforts.
By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer and Fellowship Director
The ‘World’s Mayor’ — How Michael Bloomberg Uses Philanthropy to Change the Way Cities Are Run
Through Bloomberg Philanthropies, he is providing funding and technical support to around 700 city governments across 150 countries.
By Tom Baker and Alistair Sisson
The Quest for Fiscal Stability: How MacArthur’s $1 Million Bet on Human Rights Research Paid Off
Nearly 10 years after receiving a MacArthur “genius” award for institutions, UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center has transformed itself and its work, offering lessons for both grant makers and nonprofits.
By Stephanie Beasley
Senior Writer and Fellowship Director