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....

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....