Foundations Buoy a New Movement of Renters’ Activism
Instead of focusing mainly on ways to help low- and middle-class people buy affordable housing, grant makers are paying for community organizing and advocacy designed to protect renters. Plus: See the rest of our <a href="https://staging.philanthropy.com/package/affordable-housing-a-concern-for-every-cause">special report</a> on affordable housing.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
One Year On, a Nonprofit Helps Ukrainians in U.S. Cope With War, Displacement
Volunteers for Razom raise and send money to small nonprofits in Ukraine, advocate for their country to U.S. lawmakers, and ship tactical medical equipment to the front lines
By Thalia Beaty. Associated Press
Contributor
Refugees Like Me Know What Our Communities Need, but Donors and Large Nonprofits Aren’t Listening
Despite growing philanthropic recognition that the most successful movements are led by oppressed groups themselves, organizations that aid refugees remains mired in their colonial roots and a continued reliance on white so-called experts.
By Sana Ali Mustafa
Contributor
A Career Dedicated to Reproductive Justice
Loretta Ross, who won a prestigious MacArthur fellowship in 2022, helped expand the abortion debate by creating a framework that brings together social justice and reproductive rights.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Charities That Curb Medical Debt for the Needy Are Growing Fast — and Innovating
Help from MacKenzie Scott and other donors large and small are allowing organizations to help millions of Americans. Now relief groups are putting more money into advocacy work to help avoid debt and work with nonprofit hospitals to ensure patients in need get subsidized care.
By Kay Dervishi
Contributor
Little Amal Trip to New York City Shines Spotlight on Refugee Children
When Little Amal, a 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, walked into the American Museum of Natural History’s famed Hall of Dinosaurs, she held her own amid towering velociraptors.
By Sara Herschander
Contributor
Ten years after Sandy Hook, it has fresh voices, more clout, and even a new name. Is that enough?
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Advice for the Gun-Safety Movement From a Former NRA Lobbyist
John Goodwin broke with the gun-rights giant because it balked at even common-sense measures. Now he warns his former opponents not to do the same.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
From Newtown to Uvalde: Growth in Gun-Violence Philanthropy and a New Mind-Set for a Movement
How a decade between the two largest school shootings opened a new flow of grant dollars and ushered in a strategic rethinking of gun-control efforts.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Gun Violence, President Biden, and Philanthropy: An Activist Talks About What’s Next
Politicians on both sides of the aisle stand in the way of preventing tragedies like the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Tex., says the founder of Guns Down America.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Black Lives Matter Protests Are Shaping How People Understand Racial Inequality
Researchers found that the protests were able to shift attention toward an agenda of building an anti-racist society and changed how people learn about issues that involve police violence, mass incarceration, and other systemic problems in Black communities.
The organization has long been pushing donors to direct money toward nonprofits they may have never heard of before — small charities working to rebuild communities. Its peers around the country have taken notice.
By Dan Parks
Contributor
How Nonprofits Helped Fuel the Opioid Crisis
Opioid manufacturers donated tens of millions of dollars to patient-advocacy and physicians’ groups. Those organizations downplayed addiction risks and helped create a massive market for deadly pain killers.
By Jim Rendon
Director, Fellowship Program and Impact Journalism
Disabled People Are Not Invisible — Even if Grant Makers Too Often Overlook Us
A disabled woman working in philanthropy says a Chronicle opinion piece on advancing equity in “invisible” communities “perpetuates the very invisibility it pushes against.”
To Save American Democracy, Donors Should Trade Tax Breaks for Political Wins
One year after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, grant makers need a much more powerful response to the continuing spread of right-wing extremism. That should include more direct funding of political organizations and candidates — and a less exclusive focus on organizations with charity status.
$1 Billion in Gifts Attracts New Attention to the Rules on Charities and Political Giving
The New Venture Fund doubled its donations last year, becoming what some see as a liberal powerhouse to counter Charles Koch’s support of conservatives charities and advocacy groups.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter