Gregory Gerami’s $237 million gift to Florida A&M would have been the largest-ever HBCU donation, but it wasn’t meant to be. Institutional missteps aside, the whole saga speaks to deeper inequities plaguing the sector.
Read MoreAs we mark Juneteenth, it’s also been about four years since 2020’s outpouring of philanthropic commitments for racial equity and justice. Can funders stay the course amid a worsening backlash?
Read MoreIn this guest piece, Dr. John H. Jackson makes the case that when funders provide Black male students with “the core supports you would provide children you love,” everyone in the classroom benefits.
Read MoreNexus Community Partners’ $50 million Open Road Fund aims to help descendants of the Atlantic slave trade build and sustain wealth. Fund Director Danielle Mkali walks us through how it works.
Read MoreThe foundation is supporting a company that’s creating an equity-focused model for home valuation, an area where offsetting bias could have a big impact on racial wealth disparities.
Read MoreEndowment funding is commonplace for institutions like hospitals and universities, but much rarer for social change organizations. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is one funder looking to flip that script.
Read MoreSummer camps don’t get a lot of attention from big foundations, but Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies believes they can improve mental health, ease loneliness and isolation, and foster healthy development.
Read MoreAmid a status quo on nonprofit governance that remains mostly white, are socially conscious funders rewarding board diversity? For insight, we reached out to The New Philanthropists, an organization looking squarely at the issue.
Read MoreSobering findings from the Schott Foundation for Public Education show that as 2020 recedes from view, ed philanthropy seems largely uncommitted to carrying on equity and justice funding over the long haul.
Read MoreThe $200 billion-plus accumulating in donor-advised funds is mostly invested traditionally. Inspire Access wants to mobilize some of that money to support start-ups founded and led by women and people of color.
Read MoreWhere you live has major impacts on your health. Since 2016, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has backed a National League of Cities initiative helping mayors consider urban problems through a health and wellness lens.
Read MoreAt the Community Foundation for a Greater Richmond, the Amandla Fund for Economic and Racial Justice is assisting local Black families on the path toward home ownership. It’s a modest effort, but with bigger things to come.
Read MoreSpelman College and the UNCF received $100 million apiece in recent weeks. We dig into the common ingredients in each donation, and why they’re an encouraging sign for the HBCU field as a whole.
Read MoreTo some extent, trying and failing to solve big problems comes with the territory of philanthropy. But sometimes, funders fail even to try, paying scant attention to issues well worth their dollars. Here are examples from this year.
Read MoreFounded in 2019 from the cybersecurity fortune of Dug and Linh Song, this multipurpose grantmaker is poised for growth on its home turf of southeastern Michigan. Here’s why this is a regional funder worth keeping an eye on.
Read MoreFor World AIDS Day, guest authors Athena Cross, Carl Baloney and Jesse Milan Jr. call attention to diminishing HIV-related philanthropic support, despite prevailing racial equity gaps in diagnoses and treatment.
Read MoreIn its mission to take on stubborn racial wealth divides in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the GroundBreak initiative has the backing of partners spanning philanthropy, the private sector and government. Here’s a closer look.
Read MoreEven as attempts are made to “decolonize philanthropy,” guest authors Ana Marie Argilagos, Deanna James and Sarah Thomas Nededog argue that beyond some disaster funding, the field still pays little attention to U.S. territories.
Read MoreThe winners of the Maternal & Infant Health Award, organized by Lever for Change and several funding partners, are working in high-need communities to save the lives of mothers and infants.
Read MoreThe Kresge, de Beaumont and Robert Wood Johnson foundations teamed up on an initiative to strengthen our ailing public health system and address inequities by connecting public health leaders and community groups.
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