How Both ENDS Director Danielle Hirsch Is Using Philanthropy, Advocacy and More to Shift Power

How Both ENDS Director Danielle Hirsch Is Using Philanthropy, Advocacy and More to Shift Power

Both ENDS is a Netherlands-based organization that is challenging power dynamics in philanthropy in a number of ways. Director Danielle Hirsch talks about the group’s journey, its approach and why discomfort is a good thing.

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Patagonia Could Yield $100 Million a Year in Green Giving. Where Will the Money Go?

Patagonia Could Yield $100 Million a Year in Green Giving. Where Will the Money Go?

Now that the Chouinard family has donated their ownership of Patagonia to form a new grantmaking entity, what kind of groups might receive funding? We take a look at the company’s past philanthropy to pose a few possibilities.

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Looking Beyond the Midterms, King Family Looks to Empower "Frontline Workers of Democracy”

Looking Beyond the Midterms, King Family Looks to Empower "Frontline Workers of Democracy”

Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King launched the Drum Major Coalition, providing organizations with flexible support for power-building. We spoke with the Kings about how it came together and what’s next.

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Founded to Back Movement Organizers, Funders for Justice Is Ready to “Do Something Really Badass”

Founded to Back Movement Organizers, Funders for Justice Is Ready to “Do Something Really Badass”

Funders for Justice got its start in the wake of Ferguson and has spent the time since ramping up its efforts to align grantmakers with social justice movement leaders. That work has garnered it some negative attention from the right.

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