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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Faced With Anti-DEI Complaint, Gates Foundation Opens Scholarship to White Students
After Edward Blum’s complaint to the IRS about the Gates Foundation’s “illegal” scholarship program for students of color, the Seattle philanthropy giant said it would change the scholarship’s eligibility criteria to include all races. -
Grant Making
70-Plus Foundations ‘Meet the Moment’ and Pledge to Increase Their Grants
Trust-based funders are taking a stance to shore up nonprofits defunded by the Trump administration, although 10 of them declined to identify themselves publicly. Separately, a group of foundations offered a ‘statement of solidarity’ in response to the federal cuts. -
Data & Research
10,000 Job Cuts in 70 Days. Introducing the Nonprofit Layoff Tracker
As federal budget cuts ripple through an economy in which nonprofits already were struggling, the Chronicle of Philanthropy is assembling a monthly estimate of nonprofit job losses by sector. -
Opinion
Cory Booker Set a High Bar for Toughness. The Nonprofit World Should Aim to Reach It.
Fighting Trump administration policies requires grit and sacrifice more typical of college athletes than social justice warriors. Booker showed how it’s done. -
Foundation Giving
Seeking Rapid Response Grants? These Funds Are Offering Help.
Some emergency funds are ramping up and others are winding down as we near the first 100 days of Trump administration cutbacks on federal funds for nonprofits. -
Technology
How Burnout Led to a Novel Way to Connect Black Women Across Generations
Amid a loneliness epidemic that affects Black women at high rates, can a network of “aunties” help? -
Opinion
7 Things Climate Philanthropy Gets Wrong — and How to Do Better
Let’s stop just blaming Big Oil, Republicans, and apathetic voters. The climate movement needs to reach out to conservatives and integrate ideas of the left and the right. -
Health Care
Supreme Court Weighs Medicaid Coverage for Planned Parenthood Patients
The case, which began during President Donald Trump’s first term in office, could affect access to health care for 72 million Americans, including low-income people and their children and people with disabilities. -
Opinion
Pro-Immigration Forces Are Losing the Information War. Here’s How to Fight Back.
The far right has spent millions peddling its anti-immigrant narrative. Philanthropy can help tell a more powerful story about immigrants’ value to the nation. -
Analysis
Recession Ahead? How a Tariff-Induced Downturn Might Change Giving
There’s good news and bad, according to analyses of how donors responded to the four most recent economic downturns.