Grant Makers Want to Help People Use Their Voices
Some are working to get specific segments of the population more involved in civic affairs while others are taking a broader-based approach to educate people about the Constitution and the political system.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
An Activist for a Young Generation
Using boycotts, walkouts, protests, and media savvy, the Color of Change leader is a veteran of campaigns designed to expand power for black people.
By Michael Anft
Contributor
Nonprofit Uses Small Grants to Help Women Out of Extreme Poverty (Podcast)
Trickle Up helps women start businesses, build savings, develop skills and confidence, and see a better life for themselves and their families.
How the Annie E. Casey Foundation Uses Data to Improve the Lives of Children (Podcast)
The Baltimore grant maker focuses on advancing child welfare, rethinking juvenile justice, and finding economic opportunities for low-income children.
Charities Urged to Step Up Advocacy Efforts
Only 3 percent of nonprofits reported lobbying activity last year, according to a new report from the National Council of Nonprofits, which urges charities to get off the sidelines.
By MICHAEL THEIS
Contributor
Using Philanthropy to Eliminate Medical Debt (Podcast)
Through donors contributions, RIP Medical Debt has been able to forgive over $800 million of personal medical debt.
How Youth Nonprofit Junior Achievement Has Adapted Over Its 100-Year History (Podcast)
Over the years, the organization has changed its programs to help young people succeed economically.
Improving Lives Through Better Vision
OneSight builds eye-examination centers and is expanding into new areas including Rwanda and Brazil.
By Julian Wyllie
Contributor
In a loft space in downtown Seattle, Giving Tech Labs technologists who cut their teeth at Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo devise ways cloud computing and artificial intelligence can better serve charities.
By Alex Daniels
Contributor
The Microsoft alums are major donors who are building a brain trust of the best minds in philanthropy to understand how race undergirds big problems like homelessness and educational disparities.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
How the Roosevelt Institute Carries On Its Namesake’s Progressive Legacy (Podcast)
The nonprofit arm of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library works with students, policymakers and the media to promote long-held values and ideals of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt in today’s context.
How the Trevor Project’s Hotline Is Saving the Lives of LGBTQ Youths (Podcast)
The staff of the nonprofit, whose mission is to prevent suicides, includes a medical director, mental-health professionals, and social workers.
How the Center on Addiction Helps Families Overcome Substance Abuse (Podcast)
The center focuses on helping families with prevention and recovery, new treatment and research, new media efforts to change the culture of addiction, and advocacy for coverage by insurers.
A Master Class for Philanthropy in Listening
Family Pictures USA, a new PBS program, offers tools that foundations and nonprofits can use to conduct their own community photo-sharing events to help people understand that difference is what weaves together the American fabric.
By Vince Stehle
Contributor
How an Estate-Planning Tool Can Help Fundraisers Win Bequests (Podcast)
FreeWill has raised more than $700 million for charities over the past few years.
It’s Time to Bring Back America’s Noble Impulses
‘Realists’ who say equality, a living wage, and environmentalism are fine in theory but not in practice need to turn to more noble ambitions. Philanthropy can lead the way.
By GRANT OLIPHANT
Contributor