Philanthropy (Other)

Bill Gates is an optimist. He believes the world will be a better place in 20 years, that diseases like polio, measles and malaria will be …

On May 5, more than 1200 people gathered for a forum convened by the Boston Foundation called “The Shifting Federal Landscape: Massachusetts Nonprofits Raise the Alarm.” This was a record turnout for the group—a clear indicator of nonprofit leaders’ sense of urgency in the current political moment.

They were once hopeful that outrage over Floyd’s death would improve racial equity for Black Americans. Now they worry the federal government is taking the country in the opposite direction.

Traditional philanthropic practices have often created imbalanced power dynamics and barriers for Black-led, Black-serving organizations. When the REACH Healthcare Foundation performed a portfolio review in 2018 that revealed this same exclusion within the foundation’s grantmaking investments,…

The Center for Universal Education announces the launch of a new task force dedicated to creating and using high quality cost data on education and ECD.

Extending the 2017 tax cuts is a top priority for Congress. As lawmakers determine how those cuts will be paid for, some are considering an increase in the excise tax already levied on the endowments of the nation’s private foundations. The negative impact of a policy like this would not only affect charitable organizations, but communities across the country.

Former USAID employees created a special kind of matchmaking service called Project Resource Optimization (PRO).

At the Green Era Campus, a nine-acre remediated brownfields site on Chicago’s South Side, a newly opened anaerobic digester will process local food waste into renewable natural gas and support urban farms with nutrient-rich compost.