Marc Gunther
Contributor
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Marc Gunther is a veteran journalist, speaker, and writer who reported on business and sustainability for many years. Since 2015, he has been writing about foundations, nonprofits and global development on his blog, Nonprofit Chronicles.
Marc was editor at large of Guardian Sustainable Business US from 2012 through 2015. He was a senior writer at FORTUNE magazine from 1996 through 2008.
Stories by this Author
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Special Report3 Years After George Floyd, Foundations Say They’ve Changed. Many Racial-Justice Nonprofits Disagree.
Foundations say the summer of protests following his murder changed them forever. But for many racial-justice nonprofits, the free-flowing supply of grants proved to be short-lived. -
Special Report
Grant Makers Join Together to Learn About — and Fund — Racial Justice
New pooled funds seek grants from foundations or individuals, aggregate the money, and give it away. The efforts aim to drive fundamental change by building Black nonprofits’ public-policy muscle. -
Finance and Revenue
Foundation Investment Choices Potentially Lose $20 Billion a Year for Grantees
A new analysis shows that grant makers, whose assets fell 17.3 percent last year, could achieve stronger returns by not relying so heavily on professional money managers. -
Tomorrow's Economy
Teen Vogue, Podcasts, Photo Essays: How Foundations Aim to Inspire New Thinking About Capitalism
Several big foundations have set their sights on college textbooks, documentary films, and other means to make America’s future more just. -
Accountability
State Punishes Grant Maker That Misused More Than $600,000 From Ford, California Endowment, and Other Funds
California’s attorney general said top executives and board members knew the fund was using money in ways that ran counter to what donors wanted. -
Grant Making
For Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Tobacco Is a Social-Justice Issue
The grant maker has given $10 million largely to help poor people, rural whites, and people of color. -
Giving
Bloomberg’s Millions Funded an Effective Campaign Against Vaping. Could It Do More Harm Than Good?
In September 2019, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire philanthropist, and Matthew Myers, president of the nonprofit Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, unveiled a $160 million, three-year campaign to end what they described as an epidemic of e-cigarette use among kids. -
Finance and Revenue
A Newly Hot Approach on Loans Seeks to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Philanthropists and companies are pouring money and fresh ideas into community-development financial institutions. -
Foundation Giving
Foundations Are Sending More Dollars to Donor-Advised Funds, Chronicle Analysis Finds
Congress is facing growing pressure to stop the transfers, which allow grant makers to keep secret many of the details about their giving. -
Government and Regulation
Philanthropist Urges Congress to Force More Giving From Donor-Advised-Funds and Foundations
A detailed proposal comes as the pandemic, recession, and growing inequality are raising questions about whether philanthropy is hoarding assets.
