After a Criminal Attack and Embezzlement, a Philanthropic Rescue Offers Lessons
The successful relaunch of New York City’s Healing Arts Initiative shows the roles donors, volunteers, and others can play in lifting a troubled nonprofit out of bankruptcy.
By JOHN MACINTOSH
Contributor
It’s Bias That Hobbles People of Color, Not Lack of a Leadership Pipeline
A new study of more than 4,000 people shows that efforts to train more leaders won’t work until nonprofits tackle head-on the prejudices that shut minorities out of top jobs.
Ric Weiland was an early Microsoft employee and a “data-driven geek.” His carefully structured bequest brought the LGBT movement a decade of success — and a model for philanthropy that aims to fuel social change.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Grant Makers, Put Results First in Deciding How to Give
Today’s system for doling out government and private money forces nonprofits to focus on the wrong priorities and gets in the way of producing concrete change.
By KERRY SULLIVAN
Contributor
How Grant Makers Can Turn Real-Estate Assets Green
Foundations’ property investments and capital grants should go toward buildings that avoid wasting water and polluting the earth.
By Dennis Creech and Denis Hayes
By Teaming to Help Immigrants Become Citizens, Grant Makers Can Reject Today’s Vitriol
A campaign involving more than 100 foundations and charities is working to stem the tide of vitriolic nativism by helping legal immigrants attain U.S. citizenship.
By Cathy Cha, Geri Mannion, Angela Cheng and Leslie Dorosin
Why Our Foundation Fired President Trump’s Law Firm
Leaders of the Wallace Global Fund decided they couldn’t stand by as lawyers set up a porous conflict-of-interest approach to President Trump and his businesses.
By Scott Fitzmorris
Contributor
Follow David Rockefeller’s Lead, Corporate America, and Give
When governments cut back, business must work with nonprofits to step in and help those in need by offering not just money but expertise.
By Peter Scher
Contributor
5 Questions Grant Makers Should Ask About the First 100 Days of Trump Era
Among them: Are nonprofits getting what they need, as quickly as they need it. And are foundations using their bully pulpit well enough?
Philanthropy’s Response to Trump Misses Focus on the Most-Alienated Americans
The buoyancy of the economy and the lack of draconian curbs in the charitable deduction are reasons for nonprofits to celebrate — but few are really reckoning with the roots of Trumpism and how it undermines civil society.
By Suzanne Garment and LESLIE LENKOWSKY