James Irvine Foundation Awards $35 Million to Support Workers in California
Plus, the Semiconductor Research Corporation gave $250 million to a consortium of seven U.S. universities for microelectronics research, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation committed $5 million to support studies focused on gun violence.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Damar Hamlin’s Toy Drive: What’s the Plan for the $8.6 Million?
The Buffalo Bills safety plans to use that money as well as the proceeds from the sale of T-shirts to support young people through education and sports and the Cincinnati trauma center that treated him after he suffered a cardiac arrest.
By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Recovering From the Pandemic, Groups Make Use of Covid-Relief Money That Keeps On Giving
Organizations are availing themselves of a nearly three-year-old tax credit that Congress revamped to make more businesses and nonprofits eligible.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Here Come the Nonprofit Unions
Charity workers want better pay, benefits, and equity, but contract talks can be contentious. Is there another way?
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
A Career Dedicated to Reproductive Justice
Loretta Ross, who won a prestigious MacArthur fellowship in 2022, helped expand the abortion debate by creating a framework that brings together social justice and reproductive rights.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Being Part of Management in Labor Talks Is Unsettling for Some Nonprofit Leaders
When employees organize a union at their workplace, the charity’s leaders are sometimes unaware and are caught off-guard by the news. Plus, read our report on how <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/article/here-come-the-nonprofit-unions">nonprofit groups are unionizing</a>.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Muslim Couple Give Big to Autism and Promoting Religious Understanding
Rafat and Zoreen Ansari are Indiana physicians who are devoting their fortune to fostering a better understanding of the world’s religions and ensuring people with autism get the care they need.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
A Family Fund’s Response to the Racial Reckoning: Give All Its Assets to One Black-Focused Nonprofit
A Baltimore foundation gave nearly all of its $1 million in assets to resuscitate a nonprofit newspaper. Its goal: to put the money in the hands of a Black-led charity and counter the idea it’s enough just to give to racial-equity organizations
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Rasmuson Foundation Picks New CEO
Draper Richards Kaplan has hired a former Delaware state official as managing director and a Providence, R.I., city official as chief of staff, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has named a new vice president of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
The grassroots grants came from Co-Impact, a group supported by Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, among others, while the Mellon Foundation donated $11 million for a cultural center to memorialize the history of slavery in Richmond, Va.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions