OVERVIEW: The Seattle-based Raikes Foundation works in Washington and across the U.S. in the areas of education, youth homelessness, democracy and racial equity. It also supports equitable change in the philanthropic ecosystem. IP TAKE: The Raikes … [Read more...] about Raikes Foundation
Raikes Foundation
What Philanthropy Can Do to Restore Trust and Civic Life
8 Questions for Zoë Stemm-Calderon, the Raikes Foundation’s New Executive Director
Inside the Push to Privatize Education in a New Gilded Age
No Time Like Now: “Giving in Time”
No Shortcuts: How Philanthropy Can Strengthen States in Tumultuous Times
A Popular and Effective Education Approach Is Under Fire. Who Has Its Back?
Philanthropy Is Having a Crisis of Confidence
“This Is an Emergency.” How Can Philanthropy Respond to Trump’s Assault on K-12 Education?
What K-12 Funders Can Expect From a Second Trump Term
Philanthropy’s 30 Most Powerful Couples
One Organization’s Quest to Forge a Civic Path Out of the Culture Wars, and Rally Funders
Seven Funders Working to Improve Child Welfare and Foster Care
This Coalition of Funders Aims to Cool the Culture War Flames and Protect Public Schools
The Education Future Fund recently went public with a new website and an official name, but the funders driving the coalition have been working together for some time. The seven philanthropies teamed up as education culture wars erupted in school … [Read more...] about This Coalition of Funders Aims to Cool the Culture War Flames and Protect Public Schools
Have K-12 Funders Stepped Up for Racial Equity and Justice Since 2020? Not According to This Report
The Schott Foundation for Public Education just published the third edition of Justice Is The Foundation, its annual overview of philanthropic support for racial equity and justice in education. As was the case in previous years, the report’s … [Read more...] about Have K-12 Funders Stepped Up for Racial Equity and Justice Since 2020? Not According to This Report
What Is Going on in Education Philanthropy? Cutbacks and Shifting Strategies Disrupt the Field
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series about a wave of disruption and uncertainty in the world of education philanthropy. Here, we look at changes underway at major K-12 funders and how it’s impacting grantees. In the second … [Read more...] about What Is Going on in Education Philanthropy? Cutbacks and Shifting Strategies Disrupt the Field
Philanthropy Awards, 2023
Following a few years of chaotic change and disruption, it’s tempting to view 2023 as a year in which philanthropy slid back into its comfy, often frustrating norms. After all, data is emerging to suggest that there was not, and there probably won’t … [Read more...] about Philanthropy Awards, 2023
The 50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy
Back to School in New Shoes: A Simple but Powerful Way to Support Kids Experiencing Homelessness
Every kid wants new kicks for the first day of school, but that’s not an option for many of the 1-million-plus children in the U.S. who experience homelessness. One Nashville school official told Jaime Ellis, vice president for strategic … [Read more...] about Back to School in New Shoes: A Simple but Powerful Way to Support Kids Experiencing Homelessness
Who Is Funding Efforts to Support the Nation’s 1 Million Homeless Students?
As kids across the country are settling into the new school year, having worked through the usual mix of nerves and excitement, many of them are still struggling with the relentless challenges that come with being a student who is also homeless. Just … [Read more...] about Who Is Funding Efforts to Support the Nation’s 1 Million Homeless Students?
Eight Questions with Hyphen on Philanthropy’s $4 Trillion Opportunity
Hyphen was built for this moment. The nonprofit intermediary, launched two years ago, is on a mission to ensure philanthropy makes the most of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve lives in the United States, which the group’s founder and … [Read more...] about Eight Questions with Hyphen on Philanthropy’s $4 Trillion Opportunity
Address Youth Homelessness or Youth Mental Health? Philanthropy Can Solve Both
When our children were growing up, like many young people, they faced challenges and struggles that required support from us as parents, their schools and other caring adults. We recognized that their ability to grow into healthy adults hinged upon … [Read more...] about Address Youth Homelessness or Youth Mental Health? Philanthropy Can Solve Both
The Education Culture Wars Are Only Growing Fiercer. These Funders Are Fighting Back
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on May 2, 2023.The education culture wars aren’t going away. In fact, they seem to be intensifying. Attacks on so-called critical race theory. Book bans. Restrictions on the rights of gender … [Read more...] about The Education Culture Wars Are Only Growing Fiercer. These Funders Are Fighting Back
Four Increasingly Dubious Reasons Funders Are Still Not Giving Unrestricted Support
This post was originally published January 10, 2023.In the spring of 2020, funders pledged to loosen the reins and ramp up unrestricted support to beleaguered nonprofits. Funding leaders also presumably took notice when, in the aftermath of George … [Read more...] about Four Increasingly Dubious Reasons Funders Are Still Not Giving Unrestricted Support
MacKenzie Scott Is Proving What We All Knew: Generous, Unrestricted Giving Works
For the better part of the past two and a half years, philanthropy watchers operated under the premise that MacKenzie Scott’s grantmaking was an inherently effective undertaking. Or at least that she was following some very good, very beneficial … [Read more...] about MacKenzie Scott Is Proving What We All Knew: Generous, Unrestricted Giving Works
Funders Set Out to Advance Public Interest Technology. What’s the State of the Field?
One of the big takeaways from IP’s white paper on giving for journalism and public media is philanthropy’s increasingly muscular approach in addressing technology’s adverse effects on society.This work plays out on two parallel tracks. In the first, … [Read more...] about Funders Set Out to Advance Public Interest Technology. What’s the State of the Field?
“It Isn’t Intractable; There Are Solutions.” How Raikes Backs Equitable School Funding and More
The Raikes Foundation works to improve the lives of young people by reducing youth homelessness and improving educational outcomes. The foundation was created in 2002 by Jeff and Tricia Raikes, who met when they both worked at Microsoft. (Fun fact: … [Read more...] about “It Isn’t Intractable; There Are Solutions.” How Raikes Backs Equitable School Funding and More
Five-Alarm Fire: Should Philanthropy Do More About Attacks on “Critical Race Theory” in Schools?
Last summer, we wrote about the culture wars engulfing education in the United States. We identified some of the conservative think tanks and funders orchestrating and bankrolling attacks on so-called critical race theory, and raised the question … [Read more...] about Five-Alarm Fire: Should Philanthropy Do More About Attacks on “Critical Race Theory” in Schools?
Funder Spotlight: How General Service Foundation Champions Social Justice
IP Funder Spotlights provide quick rundowns of the grantmakers that are on our radar, including a few key details on how they operate and what they’re up to right now. Today, we look at the General Service Foundation and its focus on creating a just … [Read more...] about Funder Spotlight: How General Service Foundation Champions Social Justice
With Gates in the Lead, Foundations Aim to Shift the Narrative on Poverty in the U.S.
When the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation unveiled its Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge late last year, the effort marked one of its first major steps on domestic economic mobility following a 2018 commitment of $158 million to the … [Read more...] about With Gates in the Lead, Foundations Aim to Shift the Narrative on Poverty in the U.S.
