Kellogg’s Racial-Healing Effort Draws Attention From Mayors and Governors
A $24 million grant-making effort is helping communities confront bias and could curb racially motivated violence, says La June Montgomery Tabron, the foundation’s leader.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
Soaring Stock Market Makes It an Ideal Time to Press Companies to Give More
The share of money that nonprofits get from corporations hasn’t budged in a decade, even as businesses can afford to do more and the need for aid keeps rising.
By ANN LEHMAN
Contributor
Charlottesville Lessons: Listen to Those We Serve and Learn From Our Blind Spots
Pledging more money and starting new programs is not enough to curb hate and promote diversity and equity. Grant makers must listen and learn to understand what kind of help is really needed.
By HENRY BERMAN
Contributor
Philanthropy Should Focus Less on Trump and More on His Voters’ Concerns
Foundations and nonprofits would do better to tackle the problems that led to the president’s rise, such as the opioid crisis, rural unemployment, and the sources of anger at elites.
By Suzanne Garment and LESLIE LENKOWSKY
Working With Big Business Isn’t Always the Way for Foundations to Achieve Their Goals
With the White House seemingly determined to deregulate, it may be up to foundations and donors to call out corporations for their excesses.
By PHIL BUCHANAN
Contributor
Philanthropy’s Neglect of the Suburban Poor Hurts Us All
It isn’t the cities where poverty is growing but outside them, yet nonprofits and donors aren’t doing nearly enough. Cuts in the safety net could make things even worse.
By Scott Allard
Contributor
Letters: Chronicle’s Endowment Analysis Lacked Context
The chief financial officer at Stanford University says endowments are what lead to America’s economic growth, while leaders of a key college association see a missed opportunity to explain the difference between current gifts and those meant to ensure financial security.
Opinion: Grant Makers Can Promote Diversity by Focusing on Who’s Managing Endowment Assets
Foundations are taking many steps to promote inclusiveness, but too often they forget one area that matters: making sure the people who invest their assets aren’t just white men. Here’s how one foundation is changing the equation.
By MARY MCCLYMONT
Contributor
NoVo Creates $20 Million Social-Justice Fund to Fight Trump-Inspired Threats
Jennifer and Peter Buffett’s NoVo fund will put a priority on projects led by women and coalitions that bring together people from different countries.
By Rebecca Koenig
Contributor
Foundations Are Deepening Racism Even as They Seek to Fight It
By failing to show all the ways that African-Americans are outpacing whites, foundations are making it impossible to find new solutions that will make the country stronger.
By TRABIAN SHORTERS
Contributor