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March 11, 2021
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Subject: Nonprofits Hail Antipoverty Measures and $1 Billion for AmeriCorps in Stimulus Measure

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  • Americorps volunteer members assist people to register for COVID-19 vaccine shot appointments at State-FEMA mass vaccination site set up at York College in the Queens borough of New York City, NY, February 24, 2021.
    Government and Regulation

    Nonprofits Hail Antipoverty Measures and $1 Billion for AmeriCorps in New Stimulus Measure

    By Michael Theis and Dan Parks
    The legislation could help relieve the burden on nonprofits and foundations to serve the neediest, but charity advocates were frustrated that no new tax breaks for charity donors were included.
  • Group Unity and diversity partnership as hands in a group of diverse people connected together shaped as two teams in support circles as a symbol of connected teamwork and togetherness.
    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    To Achieve Racial Justice in Philanthropy, We Must Invest in Fundraising and Make It Inclusive

    By Armando Enrique Zumaya
    Foundations only represent a small segment of philanthropy, but many fundraisers assign an outsize amount of clout to grant makers.

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Doctors at a Philadelphia medical center are objecting to a new fundraising effort that ties some bonuses to patient-donor referrals. Among the factors that go into calculating department chairs’ bonuses at Jefferson Health is now how many potential donors among their departments’ patients they refer to the development office. In addition, last year the system launched a way for physicians to flag the electronic records of patients who could be supporters. A Johns Hopkins bioethicist said mixing fundraising and patient care could damage the doctor-patient relationship. A hospital spokesman said, “It’s important to note that these discussions are always initiated by the patient.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

At least 10 members of Time’s Up Healthcare, which works to combat sexual harassment and assault in the medical profession, have quit the organization over two founding members’ handling of such complaints. In one case, an anonymous plaintiff who is suing a doctor at a VA medical center in Oregon for assault and harassment alleges that she revealed the behavior to a Time’s Up Healthcare founding member who is an emergency physician there and who did not report the doctor’s behavior. The suit also says another founding member “did not take strong enough action on a previous sexual-harassment complaint.” The Time’s Up Foundation said it is committed to “addressing the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and gender discrimination” and that the emergency physician “is at most a witness to these events.” (MedPage Today)

The past year’s most innovative nonprofits, in an annual ranking, found novel ways to meet the crushing need for aid during the pandemic and to push back against rising inequality and hate. Among the 10 top organizations singled out by Fast Company were Get Shift Done, which hired laid-off food-service workers to staff overwhelmed food banks; the U.N. World Food Program’s Innovation Accelerator, which found new ways to get food to hungry people; Color of Change, which led an advertiser boycott to get Facebook to rein in hate speech and misinformation; and Unicef USA, which guaranteed payment to suppliers of personal protective equipment on behalf of poorer countries that would otherwise gave struggled to get it quickly enough. (Fast Company)

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  • Athletes Appeal to NCAA in Protest of Anti-Transgender Laws (Associated Press)

Major Gifts

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  • R.K. Mellon Foundation and Arctaris Commit $20 Million to Opportunity Zones in Distressed Communities (Next Pittsburgh)

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    By Jim Rendon March 9, 2021
    A year into the pandemic, nonprofit workers are struggling. Here’s what leaders and foundations can do to help.
  • Ai-jen Poo, Director of National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) with organization members at the introduction of the National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in Washington D.C.
    Women's Equity

    Google.org Will Award $25 Million for Innovative Ideas That Empower Women

    By Alex Daniels March 8, 2021
    The winners of the Impact Challenge for Women and Girls, which will be announced in the fall, will each receive between $300,000 and $2 million.
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina's staff organize produce supply amidst the COVID crisis.
    Grant Making

    Nonprofits Welcome Billions in Pandemic Giving but Wonder if Support Will Last

    By Alex Daniels March 3, 2021
    Philanthropy’s response to Covid-19 in 2020 — $20.2 billion, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday — eclipsed giving to any other natural disasters in recent memory, and many grant makers dropped a wide range of restrictions they typically impose on their grantees.
  • Raj and Anna Asava, Texas philanthropists from India who work to encourage giving by other Indian Americans.
    Diversifying Fundraising

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    By Lisa Schohl March 10, 2021
    Many big-gift fundraisers still overlook donors from a variety of demographic groups, even though about 14 percent of U.S. millionaires are from minority groups. That number will likely grow.
  • Philanthropy Today

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    March 10, 2021
    Plus, how to create a culture of inclusive fundraising, and attacking traditional philanthropy is wrongheaded and out of sync with most Americans’ giving (opinion)
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