Hidden amid the headline-making philanthropist’s recent $1 billion women’s rights commitment were two regranting recipients whose work revolves around issues facing men. Together, they’re getting $40 million to redistribute.
Read MoreWith an $85 million investment, the heavyweight regional grantmaker aims to strengthen movement infrastructure statewide. Outgoing CEO Robert Ross called its board approval a career highlight.
Read MoreIn 2016, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation announced it would spend down within a decade. President and CEO Joe del Guercio walks us through its ambitious strategy, how it’s been engaging with grantees and much more.
Read MoreIn this guest piece, foundation leaders Cathy Cha and Ralph Lewin share how their organizations came to democracy work and offer some pointers for other funders unsure where to start.
Read MoreLet’s reform philanthropy, but not like this. With a flurry of investigations and proposed legislative fixes, Republican lawmakers have the philanthropy establishment rattled — but they’re doing it for all the wrong reasons.
Read MoreWe connected with the dauntlessly progressive funding intermediary’s new co-directors to talk about their backgrounds, views on philanthropy, and why disempowered folks should seek to “presume their power.”
Read MoreYoung people’s digital wellbeing is the focus for Young Futures’ Lonely Hearts Club Funding Challenge, which just announced its 10 inaugural winners. Behind the challenge are funders like Melinda French Gates and Susan Crown.
Read MoreThe Microsoft cofounder may have passed away in 2018, but his philanthropic legacy is still very much evolving. Here’s the latest from his family foundation, one of many organizations under the Allen umbrella.
Read MoreAs the field advances at a quick clip, the Dana Foundation, Kavli Foundation and the late Paul Allen’s philanthropic vehicles are all pursuing ways to push neuroscience into new, cross-disciplinary territory.
Read MoreWe connected with a financial planner whose clients received unexpected gifts from MacKenzie Scott on how nonprofits can plan for a massive windfall. One key action item: endowment strategies.
Read MoreAn experimental astrophysicist and frequent advocate for the importance of university research, Amber Miller will head up a foundation famous for its brainy approach to grantmaking. Here are some key facts to know about her.
Read MoreFinding ways for the nonprofit health arena to team up with the private sector is a specialty of this public health-focused foundation. Here’s a look at how it goes about that, in spaces ranging from child care to pandemic response.
Read MoreThe Harwood Institute is working to help communities find common ground and avoid the political and cultural clashes that are dividing the country. It’s also seeking to bring more philanthropic funders to that work.
Read More100&Change is back for its third round this year. We take a look at the evaluation process, changes to this installment, Lever for Change’s role, and what this means in the context of other big philanthropic competitions.
Read MorePhilanthropy’s been engaged in the fight against disinformation for a while, but those efforts are even more crucial in an election year that will once again test the nation’s institutions. Here are a few key grantmakers to note.
Read MoreReligious organizations are central hubs for civic opportunity across the U.S. In this guest piece, Kristen Cambell, Aaron Dorfman and Josh Rolnick make a case for why democracy funders should take that into consideration.
Read MoreMasana wa Afrika, now fully independent from its parent organizations, is based in Africa and is led and run by Africans. It’s backing critical care services for children, those with special needs in particular.
Read MoreThe Austin-based health funder’s VP of community investments joined us to discuss her lifelong engagement with public policy, why philanthropy really does need to address the social determinants of health, and more.
Read MoreA year after their son died as a result of complications from neurofibromatosis, mortgage lending billionaire Dan Gilbert and his wife Jennifer continue to plow research dollars into the incurable genetic disorder.
Read MoreAs she departs from the Gates Foundation, Melinda French Gates is quickly ramping things up with a multifaceted, $1 billion commitment focused on women’s rights. What does this all tell us about how her giving might evolve?
Read More
Whether you raise money or give it away,
Inside Philanthropy is an essential resource.
