Real Equity Means Including People With Disabilities in Philanthropy
Fifteen grant makers are providing $10 million in a push to make sure foundations are hiring and getting advice from people with physical, mental, and other disabilities.
By Darren Walker and Rich Besser
Feedback Labs and Seattle Opera Hire New Leaders (Transitions)
Also, the Southern Poverty Law Center loses two more top executives.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Foundations Must Do Far More to Aid Transgender People
More than 30 foundations pledge to speak out against the vicious abuses such people face and to provide support for a burgeoning activist movement.
What Advocacy Organizations Need to Win Today
Nonprofits must reshape their organizations to tell better stories, make membership about more than giving, and get everyone involved in problem solving rather than relying on top-down leadership.
By MICHAEL SILBERMAN
Contributor
4 Ways Nonprofits Can Tackle a Growing U.S. Divide
Unless nonprofits help people learn how to talk to one another about solutions, we cannot expect to combat our largest challenges, such as race, climate change, health, education, and homelessness.
By Richard R. Dion
Contributor
Preventing War Should Get More of Philanthropy’s Attention
Less than 1 percent of giving goes toward work to prevent conflict. Figuring out where to give is hard but here are some ways foundations and big donors could make a real difference.
By NICK SCOTT
Contributor
In the Wake of Varsity Blues, Here’s What Higher Ed Megadonors Should Do Next
Give $1 million to your alma mater, but pair it with a donation of equal size to a historically black institution, a community college, or another school that effectively promotes social mobility among those most in need.
Could a More Robust IRS Have Nipped the Varsity Blues Scandal in the Bud?
We will never know, but the yellow flags were all over the Internal Revenue filings of the nonprofit at the center of the college-admissions scandal.
By Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
Contributor
What It Takes to Persuade Affluent Donors to Aid Fledgling Efforts to Save the World
Pooled funds and savvy nonprofit board members are keys to unlocking all the money now sitting on the sidelines as wealthy people struggle to figure out where their dollars will do the most good.
By Mark Grayson
Contributor
Cynthia Gibson, a strategy consultant, says the debate over the MacArthur Foundation’s new CEO is part of an overdue discussion about what credentials make a difference in philanthropic leadership. Plus, Doug Stewart, head of the M&M Fisher Foundation, rebuts Hewlett’s Larry Kramer on impact investing.