Grant makers are urging investment managers to vote for corporate board members and proposals that will put pressure on companies to do more to aid people of color.
By Dan Parks
Contributor
To Transform Policing, Philanthropy Must Support Efforts to Abolish It
Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict was just the start. Now grant makers need to make sure their dollars go where they will make a real difference — to abolitionist movements leading the fight for just and lasting change.
By Mihika Srivastava
Contributor
Philanthropy Should Commit to Integrating Climate Work Into Everything
Like racial injustice, confronting climate change will require those of us in philanthropy to change our assumptions about how we operate our organizations, how we live, and the way we fund.
By Maya Winkelstein
Contributor
Nonprofits Push for Equity in Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
Nonprofits and their advocates are trying to help shape President Biden’s plans to help the people many nonprofits serve and the causes they care about.
By Dan Parks
Contributor
Dozens of Philanthropy Leaders Join Statement Protesting Voting Law Changes
A high-profile part of the protest is a two-page ad with the headline “We Stand for Democracy,” published today in several prominent newspapers.
LGBTQ Activists and Grant Makers Push for Equality Act Drawing on Lessons From Marriage Drive
Foundations are collaborating closely as advocates focus on Republican senators they think can be persuaded to vote for the Equality Act with the message that LGBTQ people are their neighbors and deserve to be treated fairly.
By Jim Rendon
Director, Fellowship Program and Impact Journalism
White House Actions on Gun Violence Open Opportunities for More Philanthropic Investment
State and local groups are leading the fight for gun-violence prevention legislation, but they need more resources to get the job done and permanently reform our nation’s gun laws.
By Jen Pauliukonis
Contributor
A Philanthropic Call to Action Against Anti-Asian Hate
As we gather once more in philanthropy’s boardrooms and Zoom rooms, this time to consider our response to escalating racism toward Asian-Pacific Islanders, our organizations have a moral obligation to set the tone for a broader civic response.
When it Comes to Voting Rights, Philanthropy Needs to Act Like Every Day Is Election Day
Growing state efforts to restrict voting access threaten our democracy and the causes foundations care about. We need to start fighting back now.
By Geri Mannion
Contributor
Government, Nonprofits, and Companies Must Unify to Solve Our Biggest Problems
We need all three sectors of society working together to create positive and lasting change. Let’s draw on past successes to get beyond our differences.
By Bill Novelli
Contributor
New Program Trains Athletes in Advocacy and Philanthropy
Players on the Indiana Fever WNBA team are the first group in the new program designed to train professional athletes in how to choose a cause they care about and inspire people to support it.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Nonprofits Step Up to Bolster Covid-19 Vaccination Efforts
International aid groups, social service organizations, advocacy nonprofits and others are all doing what they can to ensure vaccines get to people of color, the homeless, and other people in need.
By Emily Haynes
Senior Editor, Nonprofit Intelligence
Our Nation Cannot Heal Without First Acknowledging Who Made Us Sick
Too many of our ultrarich citizens and philanthropists have enabled, abetted, or turned a blind eye to extremism.
As Attacks on Reproductive Rights Grow, Philanthropy Needs to Step Up Support for a Counternarrative
Well-funded abortion disinformation campaigns have become a basis for increasingly restrictive state laws. Grant makers should join forces with a cadre of scrappy nonprofits to fight back.
By Nina Sachdev
Contributor
Optimism Has Long Been Fuel for Philanthropy. It Still Should Be, if It’s the Right Kind
As the Biden administration takes off and vaccinations begin to slow the deadly Covid virus, this could be the moment to wed a conviction that things will get better with a chastened self-examination from those who have already been doing well.
By Benjamin Soskis
Contributor
Ga. Senate Runoff Shows Philanthropy’s Power to Mobilize Voters
Political donors poured more than $800 million into the two U.S. Senate races in Georgia. But a coalition of nonprofits with a much smaller budget may have made a huge difference in getting people out to vote in the run-off election, which resulted in a pair of Democratic victories last week.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Reporter