Candid

JULY 2, 2025

The ongoing conversations in our sector about the role and value of big bet philanthropy —making multimillion-dollar investments in a single organization—have taken on new urgency. This is not the time for timid philanthropy. We define durable philanthropic capital as funding that is larger-scale, longer-term, and flexible.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They should all be taught the leadership skills that are critical for success in their field, regardless of whether their program is focused on agriculture, business, field work, bench science, public policy, public health, or any combination thereof.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

The authors also emphasize that sustainable agriculture practices work with rather than at the expense ofthe land (39). The report also highlights some of the economic impacts: Native peoples, communities, and enterprises are excluded from philanthropy, investments, capital, and banking, and other economic systems.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, timber—has fundamentally changed due to automation and globalization , and the search for new rural development models is coalescing around a new vision. What does shifting to this new model require in practice?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One of us (Seelos) recently sketched out in another SSIR article an alternative focus for philanthropy that shifts away from a deficiency focus of constant problem-solving to a generative focus on building a healthy context that does not create so many problems. These economic enablers were then expanded into other dimensions.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Philanthropy Fuels the Fire Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress. 15 Philanthropy has added fuel to the fire that is saviorism disguised as progress. 12 This polycrisis 13 is magnified by a deep-seated culture of individualism and saviorism, especially in the Global North.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Yet while the hazards of industrial agriculture (and the opportunities offered by agroecological food systems) are equally well known , most money still bets on the status quo: increasing the use of imported fertilizers and pesticides and motorized irrigation, despite high costs and questionable returns.

Agriculture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unlike in typical agricultural value chains, this has brought substantial rewards in terms of higher and more stable prices, and profit distributions, for the 3.6 Similar efforts to advance these ideas continue today driven by individual enterprises, philanthropy, and government. million dairy farmers who own the business.

Governance

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture, and increasing help for vulnerable communities. With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1

Agriculture

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Prest Yassine Gaidi, Anadolu, Getty Images At COP28, a group of grant makers pledged money to protect agriculture from climate disruption. Above, a peanut farmer in Nabeul, Tunisia in November.

Agriculture

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 31, 2023

Prest Plus, the University of Kentucky has received $100 million for its College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and Yosemite National Park will use a $17 million grant to restore its most popular trails and make other improvements.

Agriculture

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This article is the second installment of NPQ’s series on Community-Driven Philanthropy. In the face of so much loss and opposition, asset reallocation can be a powerful tool for achieving self-determination for Black farmers and Black agricultural communities. Self-Determination and Land Justice.

Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Most of them rely on rainfed agriculture, leaving them open to shocks like droughts and storms that can wipe out their crops and leave them without enough food to see their families through the year. The magnitude of the problem warrants philanthropy and aid at scale. Regenerative Agriculture. Astoundingly, only 1.7

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

There are specific funding strategies that philanthropy can employ to shield artists from the capitalist market. Troutman insists, “Historic Clayborn Temple, and others like us, can teach philanthropy a few things.…Artists Anasa is right: Artists can indeed help philanthropy rethink its pace and purpose.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

One strategy for achieving that vision is to support urban agriculture and community agency, giving people the chance to produce their own food. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. VF enables large-scale agricultural production in environments where space and soil are limited. Food Justice Innovation Hub.

Food

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Yet, philanthropy has often taken too narrow of a view of “scale” when it comes to climate change, focusing on scaling particular strategies, with the goal of creating quantity quickly. By Lindley Mease. The ecological crisis requires urgent, coordinated, and impactful solutions on a level unprecedented in human history.

Agriculture

Philanthropy 2173

MAY 11, 2023

Ways of life from agriculture to writing , architecture to transportation are transitioning. And then there's this (which I reprinted with permission in the Blueprint 2022 ) [link] My question is are there examples of philanthropy that are clearly rooted in a sense of transition from one state to another?

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in the South US researcher and agricultural law expert Nathan Rosenberg has said , “If you want to understand wealth and inequality in this country, you have to understand Black land loss.” They also continue to face discrimination, and exclusion from government programs, loans, and subsidies.

Agriculture

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts. Journalism is welcoming the new infusion of philanthropy. Notably, Walton family journalism philanthropy is focused in overlapping areas.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2023

How can urban agriculture not only promote healthy food but further community agency and economic self-sufficiency? What steps can nonprofits and philanthropy take to support the movement for Black food sovereignty? How is today’s movement connected to previous generations of Black farmers?

Food

Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The IRS recognizes 45,387 501(c)(5) entities, which include both unions and agriculture/horticultural organizations. While this blog is largely focused on new developments in unions’ engagement with philanthropy, it is important to acknowledge that unions have long encouraged their members to be engaged in the community.

Voluntarism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And how can philanthropies fund it? Between 2016 and 2019 , nearly half of global giving by US foundations went to health, while environment and human rights accounted for roughly 11 percent each, followed by agriculture and education. By Kartik Akileswaran & Jonathan Mazumdar What is the most powerful route to prosperity?

Production

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Coproduced with Justice Funders , a group that organizes philanthropy to advance a just transition to an equitable and sustainable economy and planet, this series highlights case studies of emerging funding networks facilitating investment in liberatory economic practices in frontline BIPOC communities.

Finance

The Agitator

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

From the Chronicle of Philanthropy , here’s a list of America’s Top 50 donors in 2011, the amounts given and the lucky charities. I’m not sure there’s any lesson here, but I just can’t resist browsing through lists like this. These 50 donors gave $10.4

Entrepreneurship

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Rural philanthropy, we believe, can make a positive difference. Unfortunately, philanthropy is disproportionately underinvested in many rural areas , and the sector has not yet coalesced around standard rural-focused methods, tools, and models. Until we know for sure, we will learn by doing.

Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Because the social sector field is collectively capable of achieving bigger social change goals when more resources step up to the plate, we have, of course, welcomed the explosion in “big bet” philanthropy in the past decade. Each phase of growth will require its own carefully thought through funding mix.

Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Philanthropy often relies on large, national intermediaries that lack local knowledge and relationships. Outlining Key Investment Gaps in Rural America Nearly nine out of 10 of the nation’s persistent poverty counties are rural , and they face chronic underinvestment by government, philanthropy, and the private sector.

Values

Getting Attention

MAY 3, 2011

Kim also writes for the Chicago Tribune and The Chronicle of Philanthropy among other publications, and is author of Surviving a Borderline Parent. Getting Attention reader, Tara, of the Watershed Agricultural Council shared how WAC has shortened its print edition and uses issu for the digital version.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Based on data published by Yield Giving, the report explores how funds have been awarded and offers a breakdown of the impact Scott’s philanthropy is having across many sectors. Increasing Consistency Among the report’s key findings is that MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropy has become more consistent in terms of both focus areas and geography.

Race and Ethnicity

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

So let’s remind ourselves that cultivation is a term used to describe a phase in a larger agricultural cycle. We must put the cultivation back in its agricultural context. And, when they have given, we must remember another agricultural tenet – the importance of letting a field lie fallow until it naturally regenerates.

Agriculture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

By Lior Ipp If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. Together, they address food security challenges related to climate change, land tenure, and agriculture productivity that smallholder farmers face.

Civil Society

Getting Attention

JUNE 10, 2011

Please join me and Tara Collins, Communications Director at the Watershed Agricultural Council for this first-time webinar , produced by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Agriculture

Philanthropy 2173

MARCH 30, 2023

What's worse, is that Citizens United was only a point on a path.

Finance

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A young nonprofit, LACE is also learning to navigate private philanthropy, public funding, and public/private financing, as well as governance and operational matters. Finally, groups can approach community foundations or other key donor institutions to explore novel forms of philanthropy, such as land donation. Notes See also L.

Food

Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 24, 2013

You can read about the report on the Chronicle of Philanthropy and download the report on <a href=" CompassPoint website. Fundraising is more agricultural than mechanical. about 25% of CEOs want to fire their fundraiser. The problem is systemic, far to involved to solve in one blog post. Each gift needs to be earned each time.

Agriculture

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There is tremendous opportunity for alignment of national, regional, tribal, state, and local systems as the vital conditions framework gains traction among philanthropies and nonprofits looking to transform the systems within which their programs operate. Nearly half of the county’s population is made up of Black and Latinx residents.

Health