Pivotal Ventures has teamed up with the Susan Crown Exchange and The Goodness Web to support Young Futures, a new nonprofit hosting funding challenges focused on digital wellbeing for youth. The first is already in progress.
Read MoreCelebrating 10 years, the Maverick Collective has moved over $100 million to women and girls’ health and reproductive rights globally. Its unique approach asks donors to learn from the people on the ground.
Read MoreIn this guest post, Ada Williams Prince of Pivotal Ventures makes the case for moving more money to women and girls of color, and unpacks how her team convened a unique external council to guide giving.
Read MoreAfter the reversal of Roe v. Wade, there is more need than ever for philanthropy to step up for reproductive justice. Here’s a list of funders who are supporting abortion rights — including a couple of hopefuls.
Read MoreIn IP's weekly briefings, we provide an overview of what's happening in a particular area of philanthropy. This week, we look at funding for reproductive health, rights and justice. Here’s what you need to know.
Read MoreIt’s finally happened. The Gates Foundation has four new trustees, three of whom are newcomers. Here’s a bit about each of them, and what this new arrangement may tell us about the world’s largest foundation.
Read MoreMacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates have partnered once already, and seem to be influencing each other’s giving. We hypothesize about what a more extensive team-up could accomplish, and what it would take to get there.
Read MoreEquality Can’t Wait recently announced the winners of its $48 million contest to support gender equality. We take a closer look at who the four top grantees are, and what an infusion of $10 million will allow them to do.
Read MoreMelinda French Gates’s funding for gender equity could significantly expand in the aftermath of the divorce. If she embraces the strongest aspects of her giving and learns from past mistakes, that could make a huge impact.
Read MoreAdding to a summer of turmoil at the Gates Foundation, the grantmaker announced Melinda may leave in two years if she or Bill find they cannot work together. The foundation also plans to add new trustees, a big governance shift.
Read MoreAlongside Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, Warren Buffett has long been one of only three trustees governing the Gates Foundation. Here’s why he may be stepping down, and what that might mean for the $54 billion institution.
Read MoreThe future of the world’s most important grantmaker is anything but clear, whatever its leaders may be saying. We play out a few of the possible scenarios—including the foundation’s dissolution.
Read MoreThe divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates has sent shockwaves through the sector, and could have major implications if Melinda Gates were to expand her own giving. We take a look at what might happen, and what probably won’t.
Read MoreOver the past two decades, growing inequality has contributed to declining numbers of “everyday donors.” Decidedly non-everyday donors Bill and Melinda Gates have made it a priority to counter this trend.
Read MoreNonprofits that address youth mental health, particularly young people of color and LGBTQ+ adolescents, are struggling. The new Upswing Fund wants to help them not just survive, but evolve.
Read MoreA new $30 million grant contest declares that “Equality Can’t Wait.” What’s driving Melinda Gates and Mackenzie Bezos to push for accelerated progress on gender equality in the U.S., and what are they looking for in applicants?
Read MoreWomen make up more than half of the U.S. population, but hold less than 30% of elected seats. A Gates-backed fund aims to get more women elected to state offices. What’s its strategy and where are grants heading?
Read MoreNetworks of giving circles across the U.S. are joining up to launch a five-year infrastructure initiative. With anchor funding from the Gates Foundation, they seek to promote, strengthen, scale and sustain a collective giving movement.
Read MoreIn recent years, the Gates Foundation has emerged as one of the most important funders of women’s empowerment. Melinda Gates has driven that dramatically stepped-up giving, motivated by experiences she describes in her moving new book.
Read MoreTrumpism is anathema to the values of philanthropy's first couple, while the administration's policies are a wrecking ball that threatens their foundation's gains. So why aren't they speaking out more forcefully?
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