A Focus on Strengthening Leaders Is Key to Advancing Justice
Laurene Powell Jobs’s philanthropy focuses on offering general operating support, leadership training, communications support, and inspiration and self-care for social-justice leaders. And it makes small grants at times, such as small financial incentives to families that take in people who just left prison.
Laura Arnold, a Giving Pledge, says traditional approaches to philanthropy provide instant gratification from a person who got help while seeking systemic change is a battle that takes a long time and can get nasty. Still, she says, philanthropists are in the best position to fight for new approaches, even controversial ones, because they don’t have to worry about protecting their brand as business leaders and politicians do.
Tufts Says Article on Its Handling of Sackler and Purdue Pharma Donations Was Unfair
The university’s senior fundraising official also notes that not everyone agrees with how the institution handled controversial donations.
Stop Focusing on the Charitable Deduction. Tax Policy Isn’t Causing the Long-Term Slide in Giving.
Philanthropy is ultimately driven by what donors can and want to do, not what politicians want to spur them to do.
By Suzanne Garment and LESLIE LENKOWSKY
In 2020, Expect Many Policy Actions That Affect Nonprofits and Foundations. Here’s What to Watch.
Threats and opportunities don’t only come from the federal government — especially in an election year. Here’s a guide to assess, plan for, and help shape what’s ahead at the local, state, and federal levels.
By David L. Thompson and Tim Delaney
Philanthropy Must Stop Fiddling While the World Burns
Climate change poses unprecedented pressures and burdens on philanthropy, says Larry Kramer, who leads the Hewlett Foundation. The stresses will grow exponentially in the coming years, ravaging the lives of generations unless we act to mitigate climate change now.
By Larry Kramer
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Why It’s So Hard for Foundations to Influence How Others Give
New approaches are essential for philanthropy to pursue, but grant makers can’t promote change unless they focus on gathering data, showing what change looks like, enlisting the right people to promote an innovation, and getting rid of obstacles.
Congress Should Allow Everyone to Get a Tax Break for Giving to Charity
Now that we’ve seen the impact of the 2017 tax law for two years, it’s time for lawmakers to solve the problem they created by shaping a tax code that gives few Americans a tax incentive to donate to good causes,
A Year-End Plea From a Family Foundation CEO: Think Twice Before Giving to Your Alma Mater
To jump-start social mobility and the economy, the most important education is happening at community colleges and state institutions that reach nontraditional students.
By KATHLEEN DELASKI
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Fingertip Giving, Humane Tech, Philanthrosophizing: 2020’s Top Buzzwords
Debates over big giving, growing use of technology in fundraising and humanitarian work, and the rise of influence over impact are changing how people in the nonprofit world act — and talk.
By Lucy Bernholz
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