This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Let’s imagine a typical foundation started by successful businesspeople in order to make charitable contributions each year to a small constellation of nonprofits in their community. Fast-forward a couple of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the pandemic cut its path through the world, entrenched inequities quickly became so obvious that they could no longer be ignored. While decades of research had consistently shown that people of color and women carry the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coronavirus is a systemic change that demands a systemic response. Our Rethink, Rebuild initiative envisages a more resilient, more equitable, more progressive future for our sector. In this blog, Clare Wilkins sets…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Racism is fundamental to the United States’ inception: our founding as a nation and economy depended on it. Chattel slavery and the genocide of Indigenous people supplied the labor and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Part I, we introduced Bill Nimmo and Kizmin Reeves, a retired couple that became involved in the rescue of seven tigers they had known as cubs in New Jersey…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For far too long, foundations and other philanthropists have sat on the sidelines of policy debates. As a result, many nonprofits that receive foundation support have opted out of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every great organization is made up of people with two distinct ways of knowing. Following the famous Isaiah Berlin essay, “The Hedgehog and the Fox” (1953), there are foxes, who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across our work at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy (CSP), we often see first-hand how difficult it can be for different scientific disciplines to collaborate. While science has made so much progress in many areas, societal advancement could go…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lisa Hagerman is the Director of Programs at DBL Partners, a double bottom line venture capital firm, which she joined in 2011. Lisa is leading the strategy and implementation of double bottom…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a report on foundations’ equity efforts related to the 2020 crises released in December by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), the organization I lead, we found that of 218 foundations…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Johnson Center discusses the philanthropy trends in 2021 that have funders reckoning with the traumatic events of 2020 and how to approach economic recovery planning. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During the pandemic, racial reckoning, and election last year, it became obvious just how important local news is to communities around the country. Despite their own financial troubles, local news…