Who’s Investing in This New Fund Taking Aim at Silicon Valley’s Housing Crisis?
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A new collaborative is looking to tackle the affordable housing crisis in Silicon Valley. Who's involved?
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Blue Dots: A Big Philanthropic Bet Spotlights the Promise and Limits of Cities
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A new $200 million Bloomberg initiative will support cities to innovate and show national leadership in response to “Washington impotence.” But to what extent can they really lead the way?
Read MoreA Foundation Gives Millions for Innovation in Cities. What Kinds of Ideas Are Winning Support?
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Cities are hotbeds of experimentation these days, as local governments look for new ways to solve urban problems and build more robust metropolitan centers. Knight is one funder pushing things along.
Read MoreA Bank Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing
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Along with other financial firms, Bank of America is a steady under-the-radar funder for housing at a time of growing innovation in this space. Where's the money going, and what's it financing?
Read MoreDetroit’s New Streetcar is an Example of Philanthropy’s Rising Power in Cities
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Detroit’s QLine opens this month, initiated and funded in large part by Kresge and other private sources. It’s another testament to how powerful donors and foundations have become in city projects.
Read MoreAn End to Homelessness? Behind the Rising Optimism Among Funders
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Despite crisis levels of urban homelessness and looming federal funding cuts, these are hopeful times for funders in this space. We hear why from leaders of the affinity group for homelessness funders.
Read MoreState of Emergency: Behind Paul Allen's Anti-Homelessness Push in Seattle
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Now worth $20 billion, Paul Allen's giving continues to expand, including in his home region of the Pacific Northwest, where he's emerged as a big backer of efforts to tackle homelessness.
Read MoreMeet A Lutheran Couple Interested in Fighting Hunger and Poverty in Chicago... Abroad,Too.
/Chicagoland couple Jerry and Susan Kolschowsky, who built a fortune in the food industry, support the poor and hungry near home—and in the developing world.
Read MoreA Roof of One's Own: This Hedge Funder Fights Homelessness and More
/Connecticut hedge funder Ken Tropin is yet another financier who supports the Robin Hood Foundation. But the New York antipoverty giant is just one of the human services organizations that Tropin supports through his foundation.
Read MoreJoined at the Hip: Community Development Finance and Big Banks
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While foundations have played a key role in supporting community development financial institutions, their biggest money comes from banks like BofA. Is that a problem?
Read MoreWho's Who At the Anschutz Foundation
/Huge philanthropic entities like the opaque Anschutz Foundation should probably be more transparent than they are. But we try to make sense of a few of the folks working on staff at Anschutz. Who are these guys and what are they into? Here's our who's who at the Anschutz Foundation.
Read MoreIt's Complicated: Banks' Messy Relationship With Community Development
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Banks are playing a bigger role in community development for a variety of reasons. Among them: to comply with agreements reached with the Department of Justice. Just look at a recent spate of grants.
Read MoreHow a $90 Million Mix of Grants and Financing Seeks to Make Infrastructure More Equitable
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Big changes are happening in America's cities, including new parks and infrastructure, that are raising tough questions about equity and power. Enter a funders collaboration with big ambitions.
Read MoreRisky Real Estate: What Can Funders Do About Nonprofit Displacement?
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With its confluence of soaring rents and responsive funders, the Bay Area is at the forefront of innovative efforts to stop nonprofits from being priced out—with lessons that apply nationally.
Read MoreWho’s Backing the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund and Why This Collaboration Matters
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Collaboration continues to be the name of the game when it comes to fixing the Bay Area’s housing crisis, and a new partnership is taking the game to a whole new level, with key funders involved.
Read MoreLight at the End of the Tunnel: Is Philanthropy Finally Making Real Progress on Homelessness?
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Grantmaking on homelessness is an area worth watching closely right now, as funders find new ways to tackle the problem and new allies in the public sector.
Read MoreThe Field of Urban Innovation Funding Is Getting More Crowded—and Interesting
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With all the new funding coming into cities, it's fair to say that there has never been a better time than now to be doing interesting things at the urban level. We look at the latest initiative that's rolled out.
Read MoreWhat a New Give for Housing Tells Us About the Future of Chan Zuckerberg Philanthropy
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Even as CZI takes on lofty challenges like taming all disease by the end of this century, it's also going to work on the front lines of tough socio-economic issues—starting in its own neighborhood.
Read MoreSteady Does It: How the McGowan Charitable Fund Fights Homelessness
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Not one to hog the limelight, McGowan is an accessible and reliable grantmaker in the homelessness space. It's open to new proposals, but applicants can't just be from anywhere.
Read MoreIn a Bay Area Homelessness Push, New Signs That the Tech Industry May Actually Have a Heart
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Does the tech industry have a social conscience? It's a fair question right now. But if this industry has a moral leader, it's philanthropist Marc Benioff, who once again is helping catalyze an anti-poverty push.
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