Can Elections Ever Be Normal Again? These 22 Nonprofit Leaders Have a Plan.
After the tumult of 2020, a new set of organizations aims to reinforce how votes are tallied on November 5 as well as in 2026, 2028, and beyond.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
‘Young People Are Going to Fix Our Democracy’
Future Caucus president Layla Zaidane talks about how Gen Z and millennial lawmakers cross the aisle to find solutions. Case in point: The removal of Confederate iconography from Mississippi’s flag.
By Chronicle Staff
Contributor
These 17 Nonprofit Leaders Want to Change How You Vote
Organizers, funders, lawyers, scholars, writers, and celebrities (Jennifer Lawrence!) aim to reboot our election system. Also, coming soon from the Chronicle: the people who want to build trust in elections.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Philanthropist Laura Arnold on What It Takes to Reduce Polarization and Partisanship
In the launch of a new interview series for The Commons, the Giving Pledge member and influential donor talks about the keys to bringing people together on tough issues.
By Chronicle Staff
Contributor
Off Base or on Target? Readers Respond to Critique of Young Nonprofit Leaders.
Call for young people in the field to behave more like Olympians draws strong response.
How Philanthropy Fails Boys and Men
Richard Reeves is fighting the prevailing view of who’s on the losing side of gender equality. Melinda French Gates is backing him with $20 million.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Advice for ‘Speak Truth to Power’ Activists: Build Power of Your Own
Democracy advocates are doubling down on the wrong strategies, writes a veteran organizing strategist. They should take lessons from abroad and the pre-1964 civil rights movement.
By Deepak Bhargava
Contributor
Can 50 Nonprofits Really Build Something Together? A Hopeful Idea Begins to Spread
Inside an effort dubbed “mutual aid on steroids” that’s getting a tryout in cities like Atlanta, Chicago, and Lexington, Ky.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
‘While I Breathe, I Hope’: A Black Nonprofit Leader and Daughter of the South Returns Home
A veteran fundraiser takes up a new job as CEO and pursues the American ideals that she, her family, and generations of Black philanthropists hold dear.
By Tycely Williams
Contributor
A Nonprofit Leader to Young Colleagues: Act Like an Olympian
Simone Biles and other Olympic athletes can show young nonprofit leaders featured in a recent Chronicle interview how to excel despite adversity.
By Eboo Patel
Contributor