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
Dallas Mavericks Basketball Team Awards Emergency Grants for Winter Storm Relief in Tex.
Also, the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation gave $115 million to 400 charities across New York State, and Goldman Sachs awarded $25 million to teach job skills in finance to students at eight historically Black colleges and universities.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
To Tackle Vaccine Hesitancy, Philanthropy Must Get Over Its Religion Hesitancy
Congregations and faith-based nonprofits are an untapped resource for persuading more people to get vaccines, but they need much greater philanthropic support.
By EBOO PATEL and Robert P. Jones
Grant Makers Use $3 Billion in Bond Offerings to Pump More to Charities
The California Endowment is among the latest entrants taking advantage of historically low interest rates to spend more now on grantees’ urgent needs.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Philanthropists Across the Political Divide Must Work Together to Cure Extremism
A pandemic of hate will destroy our democratic institutions unless we can put aside our differences and devise a cohesive plan for treating this disease. Here’s what grant makers can do next.
By Sarah Ruger
Contributor
Blackstone Promises $40 Million to Entrepreneurship Program for Students of Color
Also, the MacArthur Foundation has awarded $18 million to reduce over-incarceration in 15 U.S. cities and counties, and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation is giving $11 million in matching grants to re-open Jewish summer camps.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Why Foundations Benefit When They Focus on What Nonprofits Need Most
In a new book of essays, grant makers and nonprofits share what happened when they loosened the strings on grants and offered generous, multiyear support and focused on the experience of grantees, not the pedigrees of their leaders.
By Lowell Weiss
Contributor
New Name and Focus — on Strengthening Democracy — for a Longtime Nonprofit
Democracy in serious trouble, says Rajiv Vinnakota, and he is upending the mission of the 75-year-old Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to respond.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Analysis of Money Flowing to Hate Groups Is One-Sided
A Chronicle study of money flowing from donor-advised funds and foundations failed to separate nonprofits that advocate hate from those that advance unpopular views, writes a top executive of the Philanthropy Roundtable.
Fighting Covid in Africa, Curbing Inequities in Prenatal Health Care, and More
Also, the IKEA Foundation is giving $36.2 million to the International Rescue Committee and foundations have committed $100 million to advancing racial justice in California.
By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions
Philanthropy Should Join Forces With Mayors to Tackle the Nation’s Multiple Crises
Innovative city programs offer grant makers the breadth and scale they are looking for to tackle racial injustice, climate change, and other challenges.
By Anil Hurkadli
Contributor
A Close Look at the Pooled Funds That Are Shaking Up Philanthropy
Organizers of pooled funds and other efforts to get foundations to collaborate have used them as a test bed for changes they’d like to see in philanthropy.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Telling My Truth as a Black Woman Made Me a Better Grant Maker
To address systemic racism, foundations need to value the lived experience of employees, not just data-driven decision making and academic credentials.
By Jasmine Sudarkasa
Contributor
Growth in Pooled Funds, Spurred by Racial-Justice Protests and the Pandemic, Could Last
Over the past year dozens of new funds and collaborative fundraising campaigns have sprung up to support groups working to end white supremacy, respond to those hurt by the pandemic, and safeguard the voting process.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
Foundations Pledge to Direct More Grants to Climate Groups Led by People of Color
A group of wealthy donors is urging large grant makers urging to steer at least 30 percent of their climate change grants to groups led by people of color.
By Alex Daniels
Senior Editor, Foundations
‘Hate Groups’ Received Millions From 351 Charities and Foundations, Chronicle Review Finds
Foundations and donor-advised funds directed more than $50 million in charitable funds from 2013 and 2018 to nonprofits designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups.
By Michael Theis
Contributor