This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the 2016 election, many philanthropic organizations have invested in programs that promote democracy, including work to improve civic organizing, government transparency, and community-led public participation in policymaking. These programs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofit leaders around the world suggest that artificial intelligence is improving the efficiency of their offices, but without adding more capacity. How did we get to where AI has gradually…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The effects of climate change are no longer a future risk for Africa. They are a present crisis. Floods are destroying infrastructure that took decades to build. Droughts are collapsing harvests and displacing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Grantmakers In Health’s Maya Schane spoke with Stephanie Teleki of The California Health Care Foundation, Laila Bell of The Skillman Foundation, and Jaime Vazquez of The Pew Charitable Trusts about…
Media Impact Funders has published “Rebuilding Local Journalism at Scale,” a new analysis by Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, PhD, examining the structural constraints shaping the future of local journalism. The report…
Kevin Starr’s critique of impact investing resonates with anyone who has worked where results cannot clearly be linked to invested capital: Intentionality without additionality is mostly theater. Market-rate capital rarely flows…
For almost three years, Sudan’s networks of volunteer responders, known as the Emergency Response Rooms, or ERRs, have sustained communities through one of the most brutal and neglected wars of…
Last summer, Press Forward made almost $23 million in grants to 22 organizations aimed at bolstering the infrastructure for local news. The grants by this local news funder were the culmination of…
Philanthropy has grown accustomed to funding solutions. It buys land, backs technologies, underwrites services, and supports policies designed to address clear and urgent problems. Less often does it invest in…
What could five organisations, each working on varied issues of water and sanitation, rural livelihoods, financial literacy, food insecurity, and active citizenship across diverse geographies, have in common? Despite working…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. High-net-worth donors are heading into 2026 with plans to keep writing checks, even as they brace for a messy economy and contentious politics. A new Foundation Source survey of private…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s no secret: Foundations could be the next American institutions under attack. Why does this matter? Because millions of people across the nation depend on nonprofits to meet their basic…