The Va. Race Shows Why Philanthropy Can’t Tune Out Voter-Engagement Groups When Major Elections End
Grassroots organizations need robust, year-round funding to do the consistent work necessary to solve problems in communities, change lives, and keep voters engaged.
By Nsé Ufot
Contributor
To Help Save the Planet, Philanthropy Must Take a Deep Dive Into Ocean Conservation
The United Nations Climate Conference next week should serve as a wake-up call for philanthropy both to recognize the role oceans play in mitigating climate change and to significantly step up funding to protect the world’s seas.
By Julie Packard
Contributor
In a New Book, Young Faith Leader Preaches ‘Radical Hope’ for Social-Change Movements
“Healing the healers” — those campaigning for justice in all walks of life — is the mission of the Rev. Jennifer Bailey, founder of Faith Matters Network.
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Foundations Are Spending Millions to Persuade More Americans to Get Vaccinated
Philanthropies are taking varied approaches since there’s no one recipe for getting people to change their minds on this issue.
To Achieve Lasting Policy Change for Kids, Advocates Need to Choose Their Words Carefully
The messages nonprofits and foundations use to describe the problems facing children — and the proposed solutions — may be pushing people away and making it harder to take advantage of opportunities to achieve long-sought improvements.
Grassroots advocacy and justice organizations hold the playbook for restoring reproductive rights. But we cannot do it alone, and we cannot do it while chronically underfunded.
By Kia Guarino and Christel Allen
Advocacy Groups Seek More Frequent Reports on Nonprofit Employment and Wages
The Department of Labor releases information on nonprofits every five years, but the Aspen Institute, Independent Sector, and others say more frequent reports are critical for researchers, regulators, and legislators.
By Michael Theis
Contributor
The Pandemic Reveals the Long-Term Impact of Advocacy on a Food Charity
The Common Market has long purchased produce from local farms and sold it to schools and hospitals as a way to get healthy food to people who need it. After Covid hit, the nonprofit overhauled its operation to focus on emergency food aid to individuals.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Helps Parents Talk to Their Children About Race
A gush of money from corporations, foundations, and others was given to EmbraceRace in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Now the group is looking to keep the funds flowing to help fight racism.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Q&A With the Lilly School’s New Environmental Philanthropy Scholar
Ashley Enrici recently joined the faculty of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in a new role dedicated to examining issues at the intersection of the environment and philanthropy.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
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.
By dan.parks and Alex Daniels
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
Executive Editor