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From: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Subject: Fundraising Campaigns Move Forward Despite Pandemic Disruption
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San Francisco lawmakers are turning to philanthropists to help fund an ambitious post-pandemic recovery effort for the city’s public schools. They hope to raise $2 billion over five years to implement proposals from a new commission that could include, for example, smaller class sizes, summer school, or Saturday school. The measure’s main sponsor aims to put public-school services and funding, which comes to about $12,000 per student in California, on par with the state’s private schools, which charge $20,000 to $60,000 a year per student. To fully fund the project for the district’s 53,000 students would require “several billionaires writing a $50 million check annually for five years.” Critics of the plan say that by focusing on San Francisco, this type of philanthropy would worsen educational inequities across the state. (San Francisco Chronicle — subscription)
A nonprofit coalition of advertising agencies is producing a series of commercials aiming to get mothers involved in climate-change advocacy. The $10 million campaign, by the Potential Energy Coalition, will feature mothers who are climate scientists explaining that climate change will affect everyone’s children. Opinion research shows that mothers are more concerned about the effects of climate change than the general public. The ads urge political advocacy in addition to the usual small, personal actions that groups often encourage, and they are a counterpoint to polluting-industry “advertisements featuring happy families and children breathing clean air.” (Los Angeles Times)
