Who Holds Philanthropy Accountable for Racial Justice?
The Movement for Black Lives is doing something new by getting grant makers to call their peers. Now we need a bigger push to ensure we’re all working every day to advance change, writes Lisa Pilar Cowan of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Nonprofit Leaders, Get Used to the Uncertainty and Focus on the Big Picture
Staying nimble and recognizing that best-case scenarios will not be normal is key, but nothing is more important than focusing on mission, writes Al Cantor, a nonprofit leadership consultant.
By Alan M. Cantor
Reporter
After the Protests, Will Philanthropy Do the Right Thing This Time Around?
The well-meaning response to 1960s civil unrest by foundations and nonprofits too often failed to produce the desired results. Now we have a chance to do a better job.
By Suzanne Garment and Leslie Lenkowsky
Government Programs Are Shortchanging Minority-Owned Small Businesses. DAFs Can Help.
The Paycheck Protection Program poses hurdles that have long plagued businesses in communities of color. Donor-advised funds should quickly mobilize funds through nonprofit organizations that serve these small businesses.
By RODNEY FOXWORTH
Contributor
Statements About George Floyd Are a Start, but How Will Organizations Live Their Values?
The leader of a group that promotes equity in philanthropy talks about how the nonprofit world was thinking about racial diversity and equity when the pandemic struck — and how that might change in the wake of mass protests against police violence and racism.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
How Foundations Can Make Covid Research Grants More Equitable
Today’s system is broken, but we can do more to make sure grants support health servicesthat help people of color and others too often ignored in scientific work.
By Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Contributor
Racial Equity Needs to Be More Than Philanthropy’s Catchphrase
I am tired. First, there was the unfathomable health and economic catastrophe caused by Covid-19. And now there is this.
By Sharon Bush
Contributor
Why Foundations Like Mine Need to Give More to Stave Off the Collapse of Vital Nonprofits
Businesses and government must also do more to ensure that organizations can provide essential services, advocacy, education, cultural enrichment, and all that makes America strong, says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation.
Frontline Civic Leaders Can Help Forge a Lasting Culture of Shared Responsibility
Community advocates in places like public libraries, local museums, and faith institutions will provide the best path forward as we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis and the racial justice protests, writes nonprofit executive Richard C. Harwood.
To Achieve Justice, Philanthropy Must Give Up Its Power
Today is a day for all of us in philanthropy, most particularly those of us who are white, to hold ourselves and our institutions to account, writes the head of the Hazen Foundation.
By Lori Bezahler
Contributor