Oct. 1, 2021

The Sierra Club’s Hop Hopkins makes the case that the environmental movement will never achieve its goals until it joins the fight for racial justice.

Ford Foundation’s Rebecca Cokley argues that grant makers must change how they view disabilities.

Interfaith Youth Core founder Eboo Patel argues that social-justice efforts can learn from Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela.

What began as a call-out on Twitter by the National Council of Jewish Women’s Sheila Katz snowballed into expert recommendations.

Se-ah-dom Edmo, the rare American Indian to lead a grant maker, says conventional philanthropy has done little to advance the equity it claims to cherish. Plus: Read profiles of 15 professionals whose ideas, writing, activism, and work are driving conversations about equity.

Mando Rayo’s New Philanthropists is building a pipeline of people of color.

Pastor Corey Brooks, founder of Project H.O.O.D. in one of Chicago’s toughest neighborhood, focuses his work on accountability and responsibility. Plus, read the rest of the profiles from our October issue spotlighting people who are driving conversations about equity.

A longtime fundraiser, Kia Croom, gives other Black philanthropy professionals a space to underline their value to the field and find support.

Organizations that work to strengthen philanthropy have long been underfunded and have struggled to win the attention of individual donors. But that might be changing after a rush of multimillion donations from Scott. Plus, see how recipients of her contributions are weighing whether to announce how much they got.

More nonprofits are open to remote positions for fundraisers, which means new opportunities for both job seekers and hiring managers.

Leaders should initiate frequent and frank conversations with employees to stay on top of their concerns, make sure DEI efforts are genuine, and provide clarity on any shifts to a group’s mission.

Resettlement organizations like Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service have had to gear up quickly to help thousands of new arrivals from Afghanistan.

As Penelope Burk releases her final survey of nonprofit donors, she talks about how to put the focus on supporters and what needs to change in fundraising to make it better.

Maryland Philanthropy Network altered its physical space and its communications, events, and programs to be more welcoming to people with disabilities.

The ambitious new national effort comes as many nonprofit leaders have been stretched to the breaking point by the pandemic and many other challenges.

A new analysis shows how conservative groups have seized on inflated estimates of giving following 2020’s racial-justice protests to falsely signal that grassroots groups fighting systemic racism are getting more than their fair share.

A new foundation-supported effort will promote business models that put worker and societal interests on par with profits — and shift the narrative that retraining low-income workers is the surest path to good jobs.

To date, none of the nation’s top 10 philanthropic foundations, nor many major climate grant makers, have publicly committed to getting and staying out of fossil fuels.