Nonprofit Helps Parents Talk to Their Children About Race
A gush of money from corporations, foundations, and others was given to EmbraceRace in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Now the group is looking to keep the funds flowing to help fight racism.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Soros’s Open Society Returns More Focus to Fight Authoritarianism Around the Globe
The transition will lead to cuts in grant-making programs that focus on scholarship, migration, and the future of work. It will also involve elimination of 200 jobs at Open Society.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Grant Maker Bolsters Human Connection as a Way to Take on Polarization
The need for human connection drives a new strategy at the Einhorn Collaborative. Along with other foundations, it is creating a $100 million fund to support nonprofits that help people who are dug in on opposite sides of an issue see the humanity in their counterparts.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
The San Francisco Foundation Expands Support for Grassroots Leaders
A program at the San Francisco Foundation seeks to put money in the hands of people who are already recognized as local leaders, even though they don’t always have the bona fides of an official title, elected office, or established business. Plus: See the rest of our special report on <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/package/emerging-from-crisis-how-a-tumultuous-year-is-shaping-grant-making">How a Tumultuous Year Is Shaping Grant Making</a>.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
A New Approach to Research Empowers the Girls and Young Women a Foundation Serves
Girls and young women helped design the surveys and interviewed their peers — and gleaned more information than a rigid scientific study ever could, according to the foundation’s leaders.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Foundation Embarks on New ‘Equitable’ Approach to Grant Making
The Kataly Foundation funds nonprofits in areas that have been shut out of the economic mainstream, makes sure investment returns stay in those neighborhoods, and builds relationships with small organizations led by people of color.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian Dies at 87
A former president of Brown University and head of the New York Public Library, Gregorian was a prodigious fundraiser in addition to a long-serving philanthropy leader.
By dan.parks and Alex Daniels
Dozens of Philanthropy Leaders Join Statement Protesting Voting Law Changes
A high-profile part of the protest is a two-page ad with the headline “We Stand for Democracy,” published today in several prominent newspapers.
By dan.parks and Alex Daniels
California Endowment Doubles Its Support for Asian American Groups to $100 Million
The pledged increase follows the March killing of eight people in Atlanta, which took the lives of six Asian American women, and a year of increased attacks on people of Asian descent, who were scapegoated by some for the spread of Covid-19.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
How the 10 Biggest Foundations Changed in a Year of Covid — and What’s Next
A Chronicle review found that only a handful of the wealthiest grant makers are ready to commit to increases in grant distributions or providing continued flexibility.
By Alex Daniels and Michael Theis