Philanthropy (Other)

Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are recommendations for how philanthropy can respond to the humanitarian needs of regional asylum seekers who have pending cases in the United States.  • Beyond the…

In the early 2010s, GiveDirectly gave the poorest households in rural western Kenya big unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), roughly equivalent to a year’s income. A year later, the result was…

Over the past several decades, a number of different critiques of nonprofit work have emerged.  Inevitably, these critiques have a strong basis — they identify real and specific issues in…

In the United States, we know that long-standing systemic health and social inequities increase the likelihood of poor outcomes or death for members of racial and ethnic minority groups. For example, Black…

The Atlanta Women’s Foundation examines all of our work through a gender lens because social problems affect women and girls in unique ways—biologically, psychologically, and economically—so programs designed to deal…

The great regret that will always haunt me isn’t something I did; it was something I didn’t do. In the early 1990s, I was working full-time on the transition to…

Back in April of 2019, a World Economic Forum article started with the sentence, “This is a difficult time for philanthropy.” It went on to detail all the many ways…

When my father grew up in East New York, it was a true melting pot of backgrounds and ethnicities. And the local YMCA was the place where everyone of every…

Part One in a two-part series. Read Part Two. Our public education system, as it exists today, was not built to prepare young people for jobs in the present and…

The term “nonprofit starvation cycle” describes the experience of many nonprofit organizations that struggle financially because most of their funding comes from project grants with strict limits on paying for…

2018 is the year I officially gave up on traditional philanthropy. I have been disillusioned for some time with how intermediating institutions seem to lose sight of their purpose as…

Global markets have been affected by the current climate, and the fear of a recession is high. How long this economic and financial uncertainty will last — not just for…