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This article highlights the Ford Foundation’s approach to grantmaking, one that aims to advance democracy both within institutions and across societies. As the authors explain, the scale of Ford’s investment is remarkable, but it is its BUILD program’s “ethos, structure, and accompanying practices that deserve study and replication.”
A new report issued by the Democracy Fund provides an overview of the Black press in the US and makes three recommendations to boost the field as platforms increasingly shift online.
In Michigan, the state’s utility companies have created three 501c4 nonprofits to foster the illusion of “grassroots” support for denying homeowners the ability to sell excess power generated from solar cells on rooftops back to the electrical grid.
It is easy to talk about liberating philanthropy, but what is needed? One key step would be to shift the hundreds of billions in endowment assets currently placed on Wall Street to finance direct investment in low-income communities and communities of color.
Robert Kraft’s alleged crimes spotlight national and global crises of human trafficking—and, unfortunately, colonized philanthropy.
The Knight Foundation’s massive new commitment to the burgeoning field of nonprofit journalism is impressive in its breadth and network approach, but we wish its announcement were clearer about the need to center inclusion.
Do we need a statement of ethics for the recipients of donations?
JP Morgan Chase, an institution with a history of stripping assets of people of color, is now expanding a program that has helped 200 entrepreneurs of color get business financing.
The Rick Bayless Family Foundation has made its first three Stepping Stone Grants of $150,000 each to nonprofit Chicago-based theaters with issues.
Off and on, we have covered the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates on behalf of their foundation and commented on how frequently they have learned a “surprising lesson” they’ve already claimed to have learned—for example, that communities not only have skin in the game but deep intelligence to contribute when it comes to reforms that will affect them and their children. This year, we find the Gateses once again caught off guard.
Even when your mission changes, honoring previous commitments remains important. For The Nature Conservancy, this entailed transferring a property and providing a one-time grant to another nonprofit to preserve a historic mill.
