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International Aid
One Year On, a Nonprofit Helps Ukrainians in U.S. Cope With War, Displacement
Volunteers for Razom raise and send money to small nonprofits in Ukraine, advocate for their country to U.S. lawmakers, and ship tactical medical equipment to the front lines -
Opinion
Refugees Like Me Know What Our Communities Need, but Donors and Large Nonprofits Aren’t Listening
Despite growing philanthropic recognition that the most successful movements are led by oppressed groups themselves, organizations that aid refugees remains mired in their colonial roots and a continued reliance on white so-called experts. -
The Face of Philanthropy
A Career Dedicated to Reproductive Justice
Loretta Ross, who won a prestigious MacArthur fellowship in 2022, helped expand the abortion debate by creating a framework that brings together social justice and reproductive rights. -
Health Care and Finance
Charities That Curb Medical Debt for the Needy Are Growing Fast — and Innovating
Help from MacKenzie Scott and other donors large and small are allowing organizations to help millions of Americans. Now relief groups are putting more money into advocacy work to help avoid debt and work with nonprofit hospitals to ensure patients in need get subsidized care. -
The Face of Philanthropy
Little Amal Trip to New York City Shines Spotlight on Refugee Children
When Little Amal, a 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, walked into the American Museum of Natural History’s famed Hall of Dinosaurs, she held her own amid towering velociraptors. -
Public Safety
Advice for the Gun-Safety Movement From a Former NRA Lobbyist
John Goodwin broke with the gun-rights giant because it balked at even common-sense measures. Now he warns his former opponents not to do the same. -
Public Safety
The New Gun-Control Movement
Ten years after Sandy Hook, it has fresh voices, more clout, and even a new name. Is that enough? -
Public Safety
From Newtown to Uvalde: Growth in Gun-Violence Philanthropy and a New Mind-Set for a Movement
How a decade between the two largest school shootings opened a new flow of grant dollars and ushered in a strategic rethinking of gun-control efforts. -
Mass Shootings
Gun Violence, President Biden, and Philanthropy: An Activist Talks About What’s Next
Politicians on both sides of the aisle stand in the way of preventing tragedies like the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Tex., says the founder of Guns Down America. -
Data and Research
Black Lives Matter Protests Are Shaping How People Understand Racial Inequality
Researchers found that the protests were able to shift attention toward an agenda of building an anti-racist society and changed how people learn about issues that involve police violence, mass incarceration, and other systemic problems in Black communities.