SUMMER SCHEDULE
For the next several weeks, we will skip Philanthropy Today on Fridays but will continue to update our website as news happens. We will resume our five-day-a-week schedule after Labor Day.
NONPROFIT NEWS FROM ELSEWHERE
A choreographer, a comics and television writer, actors, filmmakers, and other disabled artists are among 20 people chosen as disability futures fellows by the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon foundations. The fellows, each of whom will receive an unrestricted $50,000 grant, are a motley bunch: Dickie Hearts, a deaf, gay, and BIPOC actor and filmmaker, wants to use his grant to stage an original musical in American Sign Language; JJJJJerome Ellis, a Black composer and poet whose stutter inspired the additional “J"s in his name, is working on a book; and Tee Franklin is a Black, queer, autistic writer working on the DC Comics series Harley Quinn for HBO Max. Fellows are chosen by their peers and can be in any stage of their careers. (New York Times)
A Minneapolis foundation is awarding grants to major museums to fund programs for older adults, who are often overlooked in cultural outreach and education efforts. The E.A. Michelson Philanthropy will give more than $2 million to nine museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to support “creative aging” programs — which will culminate in a public exhibition or show for participants. Although the United States has a graying population, most of museums’ annual education funding goes to programs for children and teenagers. (Artnet News)
More News
- Billionaires Like MacKenzie Scott And Jack Dorsey Are Donating Millions to This Nonprofit, Which Gives Cash to the Poor (Forbes)
- New Group to Promote Open-Source Intelligence, Seen as Vital in Ukraine War (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
- 19-Year-Old Turns Gaetz Insult Into $115,000 Abortion-Rights Fundraiser (Washington Post)
- Project Named for ‘Peanuts’ Character Franklin Aims to Boost Black Animators (NPR)
Nonprofit News Outlets
- Local Sites Are Driving the Growth of Nonprofit News, New Research Shows (Nieman Lab)
- Nonprofit Newsroom Verite to Launch, Serving New Orleans (Adweek)
Arts and Culture
- Human Bones, Stolen Art: Smithsonian Tackles Its ‘Problem’ Collections (Washington Post)
- The Comic-Con Museum Wants to Be Bigger Than Comic-Con. Here’s What That Means. (Los Angeles Times)
- Jackie Robinson Museum Is About a Lot More Than Baseball (New York Times)
