Plus, William and Carolyn Singleton gave $40 million to Pacific Neuroscience Institute for new treatments for Alzheimer’s patients, and Los Angeles Rams play Jalen Ramsey gave $1 million to a Purpose Preparatory Academy, a Nashville, Tenn. Charter School.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Donors Step Up Giving to Influence 2020 Voting
Donors are pouring money into efforts they say are designed to fix the democratic process. Critics see a thinly disguised effort to use philanthropy to defeat Donald Trump and his policies.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Wealthy Donors’ ‘One for Democracy’ Effort Looks to Raise $100 Million to Protect the Vote
A group of 70 philanthropists who pledged to put 1 percent of their wealth toward efforts improve the democratic process says it has already collected $38 million in commitments for its new democracy effort.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
$12 Billion Pledged Worldwide to Fight Covid-19 in First Half of 2020
However, the report by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Candid found relatively little funding earmarked for women, people of color, people with disabilities, and other historically disadvantaged groups.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
Today’s Racial Justice Grant Makers Could Learn a Lot From an Early-20th-Century Philanthropist
The billions pledged this year for racial justice should support more than legal, economic, and political change. As Julius Rosenwald showed us over a century ago, backing promising education programs can also make an enormous difference.
By Suzanne Garment and Leslie Lenkowsky
USAA Provides $30 Million to Help Military Families (Grants Roundup)
Also, the Gates Foundation has granted $23 million to three college-attainment groups, and a sports company has pledged $20 million to combat systemic racism.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
High-Dollar Donors Remain Confident During Pandemic
Among donors who gave more than $2,500 to charities in 2019, 70 percent said they expect to give at least the same amount this year as in 2019, while 18 percent said they expect to give more this year than last year.
By MICHAEL THEIS
Contributor
The ‘Warping Effects’ of Philanthropy
Foundation money fuels social movements but also holds them back, experts say.
By MARC GUNTHER
Contributor
‘Fund Us Like You Want Us to Win’
Foundations are putting unprecedented billions into racial equity, but some grant makers worry that too little is going to grassroots movements.
By Marc Gunther
Contributor
Confronting Philanthropy’s Uncomfortable Truths
Nonprofits and foundations hoping to address our interconnected health and racial-justice crises need to be prepared to take on the societal systems that created them — and that have allowed their own organizations to flourish.
By Lucy Bernholz
Contributor
Rockefeller-Led Covid Testing Plan Steps In to Replace Government Inaction
In the absence of clear federal guidance the grant maker, along with other partners, is leading the way on multiple fronts in the effort to include Covid testing and tracing.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
MacKenzie Scott Supports College Success Program
College Track’s mission is to help students of color as well as low-income and first-generation college students earn undergraduate degrees. The Oakland, Calif., charity starts working with young people in ninth grade to help them prepare. Then, when they get into college, the group provides…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
U. of Tenn. Lands $40 Million, and Spelman Receives $10 Million (Gifts Roundup)
Plus, Marquette University gets support for first generation students of color, and Otis College of Art and Design lands $1 million for diversity, equity, and inclusions efforts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
If the past is any prediction, things will probably worsen for females when the pandemic ends, setting back decades of progress on human rights.
By Sarah Green
Contributor
#HalfMyDAF Movement Spurs $4.7 Million in Grants So Far, Co-Founder Says
A movement to spur more giving fast from donor-advised-fund accounts has generated about $4.1 million for 442 charities, according to data provide by one of the founders of the effort.
By dan.parks
Contributor
#HalfMyDAF Movement Spurs $4.7 Million in Grants So Far, Co-Founder Says
A movement to spur more giving fast from donor-advised-fund accounts has generated about $4.1 million for 442 charities, according to data provide by one of the founders of the effort.
By dan.parks
Contributor