Jim Rendon is a senior writer who covers nonprofit leadership and fundraising for The Chronicle. Email Jim or follow him on Twitter @RendonJim.
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Climate ChangeHow to Turn $75,000 Into $25 Million for Nonprofits
The Invest in Our Future fund will award $180 million to help organizations and communities win money from the Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction acts. -
Big Philanthropy
A Housing Group’s Coup: Support From Jeff Bezos’s Amazon and MacKenzie Scott
The National Housing Trust just received an infusion of funds to help tackle the housing crisis. -
Giving
Bezos Earth Fund Grant Gets Climate Change on Local Weather Forecasts
It once took months to understand the impact of human-caused climate change on extreme weather, but now scientists can determine that on a daily basis. Now TV meteorologists can relay that information to viewers. -
Adapting to Climate Change
How to Fight the Climate Crisis — and Save Your Nonprofit Money — Explained
With more money available, nonprofits work to fortify themselves against the assault of global warming and curb their emissions. -
Adapting to Climate Change
155 MPH Winds Can’t Knock Down This Low-Income Housing
Nonprofits protect themselves against storms, flooding, fire, and heat. -
Grants Roundup
Bezos Earth Fund Commits $400 Million Through Its Greening America’s Cities Program
Also, the Lilly Endowment gave $92 million to 77 recipients through its Christian Parenting and Caregiving Initiative, and the Lemelson Foundation has committed $50 million to back climate activism. -
Executive Leadership
Philanthropy Roundtable CEO Elise Westhoff Is Stepping Down
She says she wants to focus more on her family and that her efforts as CEO to raise the group’s public profile through sometimes controversial opinion articles and public appearances have appealed to the values that the group’s members share. -
Foundation Giving
Climate Funders Justice Pledge Brings In More Than $120 Million
The Donors of Color Network created the pledge, which calls on signatories to give 30 percent of their climate funding to organizations led by people of color. -
Leaders of Color
Racial-Justice Leader Who Left Her Job Alleging Racial Bias by Board Starts New Nonprofit
Anne Price, former head of Insight Center for Community and Economic Development, says the new group will focus on improving the economic conditions of Black women. -
Giving
Powerful Donor Quietly Supports Groups Opposing Abortion and LGBT Rights
Sean Fieler’s approach to giving is to make relatively modest contributions to a large number of nonprofits. He also pairs charitable and political giving to advance the causes he supports. Plus: See the rest of our March issue.
