155 MPH Winds Can’t Knock Down This Low-Income Housing
Nonprofits protect themselves against storms, flooding, fire, and heat.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Bezos Earth Fund Commits $400 Million Through Its Greening America’s Cities Program
Also, the Lilly Endowment gave $92 million to 77 recipients through its Christian Parenting and Caregiving Initiative, and the Lemelson Foundation has committed $50 million to back climate activism.
By M.J. Prest and Jim Rendon
Philanthropy Roundtable CEO Elise Westhoff Is Stepping Down
She says she wants to focus more on her family and that her efforts as CEO to raise the group’s public profile through sometimes controversial opinion articles and public appearances have appealed to the values that the group’s members share.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Climate Funders Justice Pledge Brings In More Than $120 Million
The Donors of Color Network created the pledge, which calls on signatories to give 30 percent of their climate funding to organizations led by people of color.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Racial-Justice Leader Who Left Her Job Alleging Racial Bias by Board Starts New Nonprofit
Anne Price, former head of Insight Center for Community and Economic Development, says the new group will focus on improving the economic conditions of Black women.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Powerful Donor Quietly Supports Groups Opposing Abortion and LGBT Rights
Sean Fieler’s approach to giving is to make relatively modest contributions to a large number of nonprofits. He also pairs charitable and political giving to advance the causes he supports. <b>Plus:</b> See the rest of our <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/issue/2023/03-07">March issue.</a>
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Critics Charge That Conservative Donors Are Pushing the American Catholic Church to the Right
Sean Fieler dismisses the critique, saying: “The implication somehow that I’m giving money and that’s changing the way the church is behaving in the United States writ large is kind of crazy.”
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Here Come the Nonprofit Unions
Charity workers want better pay, benefits, and equity, but contract talks can be contentious. Is there another way?
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Being Part of Management in Labor Talks Is Unsettling for Some Nonprofit Leaders
When employees organize a union at their workplace, the charity’s leaders are sometimes unaware and are caught off-guard by the news. Plus, read our report on how <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/article/here-come-the-nonprofit-unions">nonprofit groups are unionizing</a>.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor
Museum Trustee Merges Social Justice and Art
Victoria Rogers, who helped start the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums and serves on the board of the Brooklyn Museum, has asked insightful questions about diversity and equity from a young age.
By Jim Rendon
Executive Editor