Emerging From Crisis: How a Tumultuous Year Is Shaping Grant Making

The grant maker is seeking one or two nonprofits to lead the distribution of the funds, a move that comes after years of board and staff efforts to make the philanthropy more equitable and inclusive.

The need for human connection drives a new strategy at the Einhorn Collaborative. Along with other foundations, it is creating a $100 million fund to support nonprofits that help people who are dug in on opposite sides of an issue see the humanity in their counterparts.

The Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky acts as a hub to catalyze economic development.

Girls and young women helped design the surveys and interviewed their peers — and gleaned more information than a rigid scientific study ever could, according to the foundation’s leaders.

A program at the San Francisco Foundation seeks to put money in the hands of people who are already recognized as local leaders, even though they don’t always have the bona fides of an official title, elected office, or established business. Plus: See the rest of our special report on How a Tumultuous Year Is Shaping Grant Making.