PND spoke with Cecilia Clarke, the foundation's president and CEO, about the foundation's focus on racial justice, its decision to divest its portfolio of industries that disproportionately harm people of color, and the post-election role of philanthropy in advancing racial equity....

Ahead of Veterans Day, PND spoke with Fisher — whose foundation provides lodging for military families near VA hospitals and military medical centers — about the role of philanthropy in addressing the needs of service members and veterans....

PND chatted via email with Abbott about the 2017 Knight Cities Challenge, the kinds of ideas the foundation is looking for, and Knight’s unique approach to grantmaking....

PND's Matt Sinclair spoke with Baird about a recent Workforce of the Future Survey, the Markle Foundation's Skillful initiative, and how the job market in the U.S. is changing....

PND spoke with the president of Schwab Charitable about her fund's results for the fiscal year just ended and what she makes of the persistent criticism of commercially sponsored donor-advised fund providers....

PND spoke with June Wilson about diversity in environmental organizations and across the nonprofit sector and about the foundation's "spend-up" process....

PND asked Foreman about the role of philanthropy in the fight for marriage equality, the challenges that remain for the LGBT community a year after the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and the implications of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando....

PND spoke with Mesch about her research and what it tells us about the differences in the way men and women give and how those differences translate into philanthropic practice....

PND spoke with Fineberg via email about the foundation's approach to grantmaking in the areas of  environmental conservation, scientific research, and patient care....

PND spoke with García about Ours to Share: How Worker Ownership Can Change the American Economy (50 pages, PDF), a new report that examines the potential of worker-owned firms to create a more productive, stable, and equitable economy....

PND spoke with Brunner, founding director of the Media Democracy Fund and an advisor to the Quixote Foundation, about the role of philanthropy in the ongoing debates over freedom of expression, data privacy, and the impact of social media on civic discourse....

PND asked Shifman, executive director of the New York City-based NoVo Foundation, about the foundation's recently announced $90 million commitment to strengthen and deepen the movement for girls and young women of color in the United States....

Philanthropy News Digest spoke recently with Katherine Lorenz about the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation's ongoing strategic planning process and its ambitions going forward....

PND spoke with Millett about the impact of HIV/AIDS on the African-American community and ongoing efforts to address it....

PND spoke with Garduque about the genesis of the MacArthur Foundation's juvenile justice work and the prospects for further reform as MacArthur exits the field....

PND spoke with the president of the oldest public affairs forum in the U.S. about what North Korea's recent announcement of a nuclear test means for the current sanctions regime and further nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula....

PND asked New York Life Foundation president Heather Nesle about the foundation's grantmaking in the childhood bereavement area, its accomplishments to date, and its hopes for the future....