Big Surprises as MacKenzie Scott Announces ‘Open Call’ Winners
2024年3月19日 · MacKenzie Scott has announced the winners of her open call for proposals — and there were some big surprises. The competition, which was overseen by Lever for Change, had been described as an effort that would award $1 million each to 250 community-led organizations with budgets of $1 million to $5 million. Today, however, the billionaire …
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‘Money Is Power': 44 Ultra-Wealthy Philanthropists Are Top …
2024年9月24日 · Top 5 Philanthropic Individuals and Couples Giving the Most to Politics. “Money is power, and philanthropy is just one way of being able to assert influence in society,” said Katherina Rosqueta, who leads the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy. Of the biggest 100 political donors so far in this election cycle ...
Trust-Based Philanthropy Isn’t an Excuse to Ignore Metrics — It’s …
2024年8月7日 · A $1 Billion Mystery Donor Who Did ‘Trust-Based Philanthropy’ Long Before MacKenzie Scott. City Hall’s metrics obsession stemmed from years of fraudulent activity. While the result was too much bureaucracy, the pivot toward financial oversight and performance measurement was long overdue. At Robin Hood, outcomes metrics were the red meat ...
The Growing Pains of America’s Nonprofit Sector
2024年10月11日 · Both Philanthropy Roundtable representatives and other nonprofit experts from groups like Independent Sector and the Council on Foundations point to those statistics to push back on claims from some Republican congressional representatives that recent growth of the sector is due to a growing number of wealthy donors or foreign entities taking advantage of the …
The Commons — Where a Divided America Comes Together
2024年9月12日 · By Chronicle Staff September 18, 2024. Future Caucus president Layla Zaidane talks about how Gen Z and millennial lawmakers cross the aisle to find solutions. Case in point: The removal of Confederate iconography from Mississippi’s flag.
Silent Donor Platform Offers Anonymous Donations to the …
2024年2月9日 · Silent Donor’s Sanders says his platform addresses many of those concerns, adding that the company offers more people access to the anonymity of a DAF without opening one of their own. Silent Donor also sets a deadline of 30 days to move a donation through its system and into a charity. Sanders said nonprofits should listen more to donors who ...
Goldman Sachs Foundation to Donate Up to $250,000 to 50 Black …
2022年2月15日 · Goldman Sachs. Asahi Pompey, president of Goldman Sachs Foundation, said the grant maker sought input from Black women during 50 listening sessions. Fifty nonprofit groups led by Black women have a chance to receive at least $100,000 apiece from a new Goldman Sachs Foundation grant program. The effort is part of the bank’s One Million Black ...
How Much Is Philanthropy Spending Toward a More Perfect Union?
2024年10月7日 · Foundations, fiscal sponsors, donor-advised funds, and other grant makers spent $9.7 billion on democracy efforts in 2022, nearly twice the total from 2018. The Ford Foundation is the largest funder, having made grants totaling $1.2 billion from 2018 to 2022. The average grant size over the five years was $133,000.
MacKenzie Scott and the Case for Giving to Very Small Nonprofits …
2024年5月7日 · On Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott made headlines once again when she announced the 361 winners of an open-call grant competition. Each organization will receive up to $2 million, adding to Scott’s $16 billion in unrestricted grants made to more than 1,900 nonprofits since 2019. Through her donations, Scott provides urgently needed funds to ...