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The Case for Reparations in Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

Elsewhere, large philanthropic organizations such as the MacArthur Foundation have provided unrestricted grants to organizations doing reparations work. The Bush Foundation, based in Minneapolis, also committed $100 million in 2021 to atone for its ties to slavery and land theft.

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Helping Movements Meet the Moment: What Philanthropy Can and Must Do

NonProfit Quarterly

With so much fuel for change and so much money to spend, what’s coming up short in philanthropy, and what needs to be done? Can’t Buy Your Way to Liberation Of course, leaders in social justice philanthropy would be ill-advised to act as if writing checks is enough. Where does social justice philanthropy fit in?

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By 1948 Cafritz had amassed such wealth from real estate development that he incorporated a foundation bearing his and his wife’s name. It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.”

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How Foundations Can Co-Create Movement Infrastructure

NonProfit Quarterly

studio on pexels.com Discussions of trust-based philanthropy have gained increased prominence over the years, but how can philanthropy operate as an effective part of social justice movements—beyond just providing grants to movement nonprofits? For more than a half-century, the foundation funded settlement houses and social services.

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Philanthropy Must Engage in Reparations, Report Argues

NonProfit Quarterly

The profits of those newspapers helped build the wealth behind several modern-day charitable foundations, notably the William S. Abell Foundation, created by the great-grandson of the Sun ’s founder; and the Meyer Foundation, named for the former owner of the Post. Reparative work…has been largely ignored by philanthropy.

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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in India

Candid

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. During the pandemic, family philanthropy grew significantly , tripling in FY2020 compared to FY2019.

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Jury Is Out On Philanthropy And Medical Debt

The NonProfit Times

Those expectations were based in part on the 63% of households in a 2022 Kaiser Family Foundation study that said medical debt had forced them to reduce expenditures on food and clothing and 48% that said medical debt had caused them to deplete all or most of their savings.

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