Philanthropy

The Rockefeller Foundation is setting ambitious goals under our new all-of-Foundation climate strategy for how we can leverage our programs, partnerships, and voice to advance opportunity for all while reversing…

When the board of a foundation dedicated to innovation in healthcare delivery asked, “What could we achieve with advocacy?”, the question changed the entire trajectory of its philanthropy. Executive Director…

As nightstand “To Be Read” piles grow and donation boxes expand, readers are consuming more and more books each year. At the same time, the publishing industry still faces a looming…

Throughout my eight years as a nonprofit fundraiser, I sent many inquiries each year to family foundations and the majority earned no response at all. When I did receive responses,…

Rest and joy are essential to not only leaders but their teams, their organizations, and the communities they serve.

Small, place-based foundations operate in almost every rural region, town, and city in the U.S. Many of these communities have experienced a dramatic loss of jobs in the past decades.…

Teachers see the pandemic learning loss that persists, and know that the need for help and funding continues.

Philanthropy is grappling with the role it must play in responding to what is called the polycrisis – climate and environmental crises, entrenched economic inequalities, and social injustices.The material role that philanthropy can play ……

How should wealthy people respond to daunting problems like racism, economic inequality and climate change? Leading thinkers have long questioned whether philanthropy offers appropriate or meaningful solutions to vexing challenges.…

From my experience, a few tips can ensure volunteering program success.

2023 is the year AI ate the internet, according to the New Yorker and anyone not living under a rock. AI has so deeply penetrated our society that we can’t ignore the…

Two years ago, as COVID-19 spread to every corner of the world, the virus ushered in a slew of urgent needs while exposing entrenched issues of inequality and injustice. It…