Tracey Durning, executive director of the Planet Heritage Foundation, argues that as governments become less willing to bankroll transformative change, innovative funding mechanisms will be a critical component of our efforts to address climate change....

Michael Seltzer shares lessons learned from the responses to disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti about the importance of small acts of kindness, investing in both relief and rebuilding efforts, supporting community-based organizations, and addressing underlying factors that contribute to a disaster's destructive impact....

Ruiz-Healy, vice president at the Rappaport Family Foundation, calls for mobilizing students in their communities to ensure that government and other institutions are accountable to everybody — not just the privileged few....

Young people are the biggest stakeholders when it comes to their own education, writes Alexis Morin, and we must listen to their perspectives if we are to craft policies that actually help them succeed....

Floyd Mills, vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Council on Foundations, argues that foundations need to do more to address the lack of data about and underrepresentation of LGBTQ people and people with disabilities in philanthropy....

Juan David Ferreira and Merybell Reynoso, consultants for Asociación de Fundaciones Empresariales y Familiares-AFE Colombia and the SDG Philanthropy Platform, call on funders to play a leading role in helping create the conditions needed to forge a lasting peace in Colombia....

The Urgent Action Fund's Kate Kroeger shares a few keys to what effective organizing in the current era looks like, and how funders can respond....

Gary D. Bass and Mark Rosenman argue that more support is needed to counter actions that undermine democratic norms, roll back safety-net protections, and end efforts to protect the health of the nation and the planet....

Cathy Cha, vice president of programs at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, finds it inspiring that people are stepping out of their comfort zones and becoming more involved in our democracy....

Annie Rhodes, director of foundation strategy for Blackbaud's Corporations & Foundations Group, explores how to engage U.S. grantmakers in mapping the work they are supporting domestically against the larger global framework....

Timothy P. Silard, president of the Rosenberg Foundation, calls on funders to fight back against the narrative that paints immigrants as criminals and instead lift up who they really are — neighbors, family members, and friends who add tremendous value to our country and our communities....

Tim Delaney, president and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, argues that the White House budget blueprint silently, yet effectively, targets private philanthropy as the fallback subsidy for government programs that would be downsized or eliminated....

Peter Sloane, chairman and CEO of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, argues that inflection point funding enables the philanthropic community to identify, fix, and/or strengthen broken rungs on the ladder out of poverty....

Mark Rosenman, a professor emeritus at the Union Institute & University, argues that repeal of the Johnson Amendment is not in the interest of either the charitable sector or the nation....