In a guest essay for #TheCommons , Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes about the 'closing space' in civil society. Read Kleinfeld's full essay at: bit.ly/4cOiEol
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Great interview with Drew Lindsay on It's All Journalism about #TheCommons , our new project bringing together guest essays and great journalism to examine how America’s #nonprofits and foundations are working to heal the nation’s divides and build community. Listen in!

Letter to the Editor: MacKenzie Scott’s budget limit may seem arbitrary, but it serves an important purpose. A $1 million cutoff helps donors identify organizations with strong potential to help more people. @IUphilanthropy
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Among the new #nonprofitleadership announced this week: Julia Roberts will be the next CEO of BRAC’s USA arm; Connecticut Community Foundation has tapped a new leader; and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation will install its next president in the fall.
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Julius Caesar liked them. Martin Luther King, Jr. called them the 'most effective' solution to poverty. Richard Nixon, Milton Friedman and the Black Panthers thought they could work. Why are guaranteed income experiments are back? Mellon Foundation Stanford Basic Income Lab
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Among the notable grants in our #weeklygrantsroundup are $100M from the @IKEAfoundation to Drive Electric Campaign; $50M to build a new cancer hospital at WVU Mountaineers; and $8M to the four winners of Skoll Foundation’s 2024 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.
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#Philanthropy orgs spent $11 million between 2018 and 2023 to block legislation that would have placed new regulations on donor-advised funds. Institute for Policy Studies Leah Hunt-Hendrix Decolonizing Wealth Project #DAF
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Philanthropy must reckon with its racist past to truly heal divides, argues Edgar Villanueva of Decolonizing Wealth Project in an essay for #TheCommons . Read the full essay at: bit.ly/3TTN7ID

Opinion: Collaboration — not resistance — is the best path to lasting social change. For proof, just look at the debate over pandemic school closures, writes columnist Eboo Patel.
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Nearly 70% of Muslim Americans say they always give zakat, a yearly donation of 2.5% of one’s wealth that Islam encourages, during Ramadan, according to a new study writes Shariq Siddiqui of Indiana University.
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Letter to the Editor: Most charitable wealth was built by exploiting Black people. Owning up to that is crucial to the reparations conversation, write Co-CEOs Temi F. Bennett and Hanh Le of iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility. @iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility
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Year-end giving was down 2.8 percent compared to 2022, according to a new study. Donor participation fell across the board. #philanthropy
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A new podcast, Funding Rural, describes the surprising overlap between urban and rural needs — and points out that stereotypes and bias can hinder rural charities, just as they often hurt BIPOC-led charities in urban areas. #TheCommons .
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Letter to the Editor: Recent op-ed expertly captures why foundations must step in to ease stress and workloads at nonprofits, writes Sharisse Kimbro of Allstate Foundation. #opinion
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The latest magazine issue is out! Devoted to our new project #TheCommons , this issue is chock-full of insightful guest essays from leaders examining the myriad ways philanthropy is helping heal the nation's divides, or exacerbating them. Check it out at: bit.ly/3xr0UPA

Unlock the power of DAF donors to fuel your fundraising efforts! Join us on April 18th for a #philwebinar to glean insights from Stephanie Buckley of Wells Fargo on the $200 billion world of donor-advised funds. Save 20% with early bird discount: bit.ly/3xi0AlZ

This week the Chronicle of Philanthropy introduced #TheCommons , our new project exploring how America’s nonprofits and foundations are working to heal the nation’s divides and build community. Click through for great guest essays from leaders, thinkers. bit.ly/3U5Zcfh