Belnick, senior program director for college success at the ECMC Foundation, explains what the foundation is doing to address basic-needs insecurity on college campuses....

The CEO of Habitat for Humanity International argues that collaboration between the private, public, and social sectors is key to making affordable housing accessible to more families....

Funders have a right to expect that their nonprofit grantees have systems and structures in place to manage grants effectively and ethically, writes Kilpatrick. Does that also mean they have a responsibility to invest in the grant management capabilities of they organizations they entrust with funds?

The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and the executive director of Cities of Service argue that a citizen-led microgrant program allows for a more accurate identification of the challenges that people in a community want to see addressed....

What might a foundation gain by investing in an activist, community-engaged youth council? The California Endowment's Ross explains....

White, an advisor to nonprofit organizations and philanthropists, examines actress Lori Loughlin's and her husband's claim that the payments they allegedly made to get their daughters into the University of Southern California weren't bribes....

The executive vice president of mission strategy at the ALS Association explains how funds raised by the Ice Bucket Challenge have been used to advance research on the disease....

Smart, a national spokesperson and advocate for rural philanthropy, explains why tactics and cultural context are critical to effective rural philanthropic practice....

McCarthy, who retired in December as president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, explains why the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund represents a commitment to the that city's most important resource: its young people....

Erickson-Kulas, a program officer at the Michelson 20MM Foundation, explains how the consolidation of publishers could drive up textbook prices and calls on philanthropic funders to invest in open educational resources (OER) — freely licensed materials such as textbooks, tests, and software that reside in the public domain....

Gopal, vice president of strategy and program at the Democracy Fund, outlines three things philanthropy needs to do to more fully embrace a complexity-friendly approach to designing and evaluating social change....

For many organizations, write Sykes and Edwards, participating in a collaboration opens up opportunities that put them in a stronger position to fulfill their missions, scale their work, and help more families achieve their dreams....

Because it focuses on the individual woman or girl and not on the advocacy efforts of feminist groups, most funding for women's empowerment is not only ineffective but actually harmful, argues Françoise Girard, president of the International Women's Health Coalition....

Jessica Almy, director of policy for the Good Food Institute, argues that by funding initiatives that accelerate open-access research in making meat from plants and cells, strategic philanthropists can help transform Big Ag into Better Ag and ensure that the change benefits the people who need it most....