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....

The funders of the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship, an initiative to promote more equitable and sustainable pathways to economic mobility, explain their collaboration with educators and employers to build more scalable long-term solutions that have been proven to help youth acquire the skills they need to navigate the rapidly changing world of work....

Holt International Phillip Littleton is president and CEO calls on international adoption agencies to champion efforts to strengthen, preserve, and reunite birth families; advocate for in-country adoption; and remove barriers to international adoption....

The most recent Benchmarking Survey from Grantmakers In Education highlights an important and difficult question, writes Lopez: How will we navigate the challenge of sharing power with those who have historically had little, especially on occasions when their ideas differ from our own?...

It has been ten years since NCRP released Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best, and as Dorfman, the organization's president, reflects on the response to the report, he's struck by how far the sector has come — and by how little has changed....

Securing and promoting a "name brand" CEO may be an accepted business strategy in our celebrity-obsessed culture, write Lopez and David, but the benefit to a philanthropic foundation is difficult to gauge....

The philanthropic response to the catastrophic fire at the iconic, eight-hundred-year-old cathedral is an opportunity, writes Bradford, for "greater self-reflection, education, and transparency in philanthropy"....

Because our economic system depends on Americans having confidence in its fairness and equity, writes Rosenman, nonprofit leaders must do what they can to ensure that wealthy Americans pay their fair share of taxes....

Andrew Drazan, CEO and co-founder of Wellbridge Addiction Treatment and Research, calls on the private sector to become a major contributor to solutions aimed at addressing the substance abuse epidemic....

Whether you're an optimist or skeptic, Opportunity Zones are here to stay, write the authors, and now is the time for philanthropy to step up and demonstrate how this new source of private capital can shape the evolving market landscape and positively impact communities in need of a boost....

Deaccessioning a work of art is never a good idea, writes museum veteran Miller, but if it has to be done, mitigating the unfortunate results is not difficult....

Maricela Gutiérrez, the executive director of Services, Immigrant Rights & Education Network (SIREN), highlights the political power of new immigrant and youth voters as seen in the 2018 midterm elections and the need for ongoing community organizing, policy advocacy, and voter engagement among immigrant youth and youth of color....

Yanin Senachai, a staff attorney working in the impact litigation unit at Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, explains how labor trafficking is another form of exploitation enabled by glaring defects in the U.S. immigration system and why systematic reform is urgently needed....

At their core, fights over immigration, housing policy, criminal justice reform, gun control, and tax policy are fights over who is seen and who matters, writes Ziskind. But by investing in movement-building strategies that bridge differences, funders can help create a more inclusive society that is responsive to the needs of the most vulnerable....