Philanthropy

Sarah Kearney found her mission right out of high school. That summer, a wealthy family asked her to help launch a philanthropy focused on fighting climate change. She’d so impressed…

New results from Florida’s 3rd grade reading exams statewide aren’t good, showing that only about a quarter of kids tested in public schools could read proficiently, meaning they scored a…

In March 2020, when COVID-19 officially became a pandemic, sociologist Alondra Nelson launched a crowdsourced collection of interdisciplinary resources placing COVID-19 in historical and cultural context. In the following weeks, the Social…

As the president of Eye to Eye, a nonprofit that supports individuals with learning disabilities, I find this unacceptable. The stigma that surrounds learning disabilities should not persist in 2022. Having…

Right now, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild and reimagine America’s infrastructure systems. Following a decade of underfunding and maintenance backlogs, last year’s historic bipartisan commitment of more than $1 trillion…

Program funders and impact investors are vital parts of the community development ecosystem, helping power transformative progress every day. But even with their support, years of unrelenting pressure have taken a toll on community-based organizations.

Over the past decade, philanthropic leaders and others working for progressive social change have increasingly focused on culture. This growing interest in culture comes from a dual understanding that achieving…

The future of employee giving in 2024 is marked by innovation, personalization and collaboration.

The mental healthcare system in the United States needs a dramatic intervention. At best, our system is fragmented, siloed, and plagued by misaligned incentives that only deepen existing problems; at…

Luminate recently received our second Grantee Perception Report (GPR). We anticipated the results with eagerness and some anticipation. As one funder said during the recent Center for Effective Philanthropy conference…

The Trust-Based Philanthropy Project is a five-year peer-to-peer funder initiative designed to address the inherent power imbalances between foundations and nonprofits. It’s an initiative built around action and immediacy. A quick perusal…

For companies and nonprofits planning days of service, here are a few questions I encourage you to ask yourselves before planning.