As a five-report series from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and Grantmakers for Southern Progress concludes, a simple but profound point is made: Philanthropy can’t promote racial equity effectively if it fails to challenge white supremacy in the South.
NPQ is initiating a new practice of explicitly trying to advance conversations that are stuck. This morning, we advisedly take up the massively contentious topic of donor-advised funds.
This article, by former tax counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Dean Zerbe, asks what it would look like if donor-advised funds reform focused on, among other things, “getting…dollars out of warm banks and into the hands of working charities.” The result, concludes Zerbe, would be nothing short of astonishing.
“Without a doubt, the most noteworthy story affecting the charitable sector over the past twenty-five years has been the meteoric rise of donor-advised funds,” writes Ray Madoff, cofounder and director of the Boston College Law School Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good. This article lays out three steps to ensure that DAFs work “for everyone.”
Having a money-losing nonprofit hospital is a healthcare risk in any community. How will that risk change if Mission Health becomes part of HCA? It depends on respect for Mission historical role and the community’s ability to advocate for quality healthcare and services.
How nonprofits fill in the gaps for communities when government funding stalls.
How will new Sesame-branded material influence educators and the children they teach? And will open a Pandora’s box full of other marketable characters?
Yatooma works for Charity Motors, a 501c3 with annual revenue in the $6 million range. He’s not just the 12th-highest-paid nonprofit executive in Detroit, with compensation of $263,585; he also chairs the board.
In a partial concession to critics, the nonprofit College Board agrees to create an advanced placement world history curriculum that starts in 1200, rather than 1450. This still excises well over 8,000 years of history from the world history curriculum that had been in place since 2002.
All proceeds from January’s performances of the musical “Hamilton” in Puerto Rico will be donated to the Flamboyan Foundation’s new arts fund. The award-winning actor-playwright explains why.
In Sacramento, a local public radio station partners with 12 community groups to cohost six Study Circle discussions that foster conversation regarding affordable housing across racial and class divides.
RAICES says “no” to a hefty donation from Salesforce, citing its contract with US Customs and Border Protection.