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....

Jake Williams, executive director of Healthier Colorado, writes that this an opportune moment to mobilize a movement around the belief that every American deserves the chance to lead a healthy life....

Jody Myrum, director of the NoVo Foundation's Advancing Adolescent Girls' Rights Initiative, shares what she and her colleagues learned from a year-long listening tour about funding for girls and young women of color....

Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH, CPPS, president and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation, calls on foundations and other funders to support a coordinated national effort to safe care delivery across all aspects of the healthcare system....

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's John Lumpkin explains what the nation's largest healthcare funder is doing to address the issues of patients with complex needs....

Mark Rosenman argues that nonprofits and charities are in the best position to do something about the polarized political climate....

Chet P. Hewitt, president and CEO of Sierra Health Foundation and The Center, describes how a funder collaborative is building a network of community organizations in California committed to driving health policy and systems change at the regional level....

Gasby Brown, a co-founder of Bridge Philanthropic Consulting, notes that if African Americans, who have a tradition of giving generously, weren't a fixture on nonprofits' donor rolls in the past, it may be because no one thought to ask....

Foundation Center president Brad Smith explains why access to "open" 990s is essential to the long-term health of the social sector....