Ford’s Push on Disability Rights Should Be a Model for Philanthropy
The foundation’s explicit outline of steps it will take to aid people with disabilities sends a strong signal to grant makers everywhere.
By Tony Coelho
Contributor
The Museum of Arts and Design and the Center for Global Development Get New Leaders
Also, the San Diego Opera and Humanim appoint new fundraisers.
By anais.strickland
Contributor
On Race and Inequality, Philanthropy Has to ‘Get Woke’
A foundation leader offers a seven-question test to determine if your organization is sleeping through the fight to create a more just America.
By Robert K. Ross
Contributor
Foundations Can Use Their Shareholder Muscle to Fight Climate Change
Proxy measures are gaining steam at fossil-fuel companies, but it takes more grant makers joining forces to make a difference.
By Laura S. Campos
Contributor
Nonprofit Uses Science to Reveal Words With Power to Change Minds
The FrameWorks Institute helps charities rethink their messages to simplify complicated ideas, move issues through Congress, and influence public opinion.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
After 25 Years of Grant Making, I Worry We Have Lost Sight of Nonprofit Struggles
More and more grant makers fail to give the organizations they fund the freedom, flexibility, or resources required to solve complex problems.
By Elspeth Revere
Contributor
Philanthropy Won’t Solve Big Problems Unless It Stops Obsessing About Metrics
The emphasis on measurable performance targets often shortchanges important missions that are not as easily quantified, an executive with the Aspen Institute argues.
By MAUREEN CONWAY
Contributor
Pay Now or Pay Later? Can’t Philanthropy Do Both?
A recent critique of the Minneapolis Foundation’s Pay It Forward Forever Fund wrongly suggested that current-day needs and long-term endowments are in conflict with one another, the grant maker’s chairman says.
By Norm Rickeman
Contributor
Baltimore Surveillance Debate ‘Healthy,’ Laura Arnold Says
The uproar over the Baltimore Police Department’s undisclosed use of grant-funded aerial surveillance technology has fueled a welcome public discussion about the use of such tactics and attendant privacy concerns, the billionaire donor Laura Arnold tells The Baltimore Sun.
Democrats Join Call for Clintons to Separate From Foundation
Some prominent members of Hillary Clinton’s party are calling on her family to fully cut ties with its namesake charity should she be elected president, The Wall Street Journal writes. Plus, more of the latest news and views on the Clinton Foundation imbroglio.