This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A lot has happened over the past month that had the potential to convince vaccine hesitant Americans to get the jab: More than 1,000 Americans are dying every day, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before I joined Lacuna Giving Circle, there was a gap in my personal philanthropy that I couldn’t ignore. My husband—a high school teacher—and I—a nonprofit fundraiser—contributed to several causes we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since mid-2020, MacKenzie Scott has made charitable donations totaling close to $8.6 billion across more than 780 nonprofit organizations and universities — a philanthropic tsunami announced not with launch events…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Women’s Philanthropy Institute today released Gender and Crowdfunding which examines overall gender differences in how women and men give to crowdfunding campaigns. The report uncovers notable insights on women…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Don’t look now, but today’s “traditional” American household has a decidedly different look. The 1950s Beaver Cleaver family model of a married couple, two kids, and a white picket fence…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The current opioid epidemic is a complex problem reflecting the many challenges inherent in our healthcare system. Opioids* are a class of prescription medications providing significant benefits to patients with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I work with a set of grantmakers who are passionately invested in funding a group of people and related policy and practice issues that are very much under siege at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Does civil society address questions of values in ways that government and business cannot? This question makes sense if we presuppose limits on the values government and business can express.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When people think of “philanthropists,” they often think of celebrities or the ultrawealthy—people with private planes who make million-dollar donations and attend galas. But the truth is that anyone can be a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As communication consultants, we’re often brought in to help the leadership of colleges and universities navigate some of their biggest challenges. More and more, that means issues involving diversity, equity…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We have authority by martial law to shoot looters,” Captain James Scott of the New Orleans Police department, or NOPD, told more than two dozen officers just days after Hurricane…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colleges and universities lost about 191,500 transfer students in the 2020-21 academic year — representing a loss almost three times greater than the previous year’s decline of 69,300 students, according to new data…