A report from Bolder Advocacy, an initiative of the Alliance for Justice, outlines the types of advocacy efforts that 501(c)(3) organizations legally can engage in and foundations can fund, including policy research, meetings with reporters, educating the public, and community organizing. According to the report, Foundation Advocacy Grants:...

Interventions for mental health conditions, half of which are manifest by age 14, work best at an early stage when symptoms are less severe, more treatable, and readily prevented from escalating, a report from the Meadows Mental Health Institute finds. Funded by the San Antonio Area Foundation and the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, the report,...

The number of clean energy jobs across twelve Midwestern states totaled 737,031 in 2018, up 4 percent on a year-over-year basis, a report from the Clean Energy Trust, in partnership with Environmental Entrepreneurs and BW Research, finds. The report, 2019 Clean Jobs Midwest (or executive summary, 6 pages, PDF), a survey of clean energy...

A place-based initiative designed to integrate best practices in adult-child interactions into early-learning systems can support inclusive community change — but also requires shifts in grantmakers' mindsets and away from traditional foundation orthodoxies, a report from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation finds. Published in...

A pilot program launched in 2015 with the aim of supporting artists in the exercise of their creative power and elevating the diversity of communities and artistic practice in Boston resulted in many participants taking risks, career opportunities for some of them, and real community change, a report from the New England Foundation for the Arts...

More than three-quarters (78 percent) of people who volunteer with a nonprofit say that understanding the impact of their efforts keeps them engaged, a report from Verified Volunteers, the service sector unit of background and identity services firm Sterling, in partnership with VolunteerMatch, finds. Based on a survey of more than...

With the freedom to design, staff, and implement school models that appeal to a wide range of families and enroll students from multiple neighborhoods, charter schools have the potential to help advance racial and socioeconomic integration in public schools — yet are not living up to that vision, a report from the Century Foundation finds....

Climate change is causing significant and far-reaching impacts on the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes region, as well as on the more than thirty-four million people who live in their basin, a report from the Environment Law & Policy Center finds. The report, The Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes (74 pages, PDF), found that in...

Sub-optimal diets are responsible for more deaths than any other risk factor, with diets high in sodium, low in whole grains, low in fruit, low in nuts and seeds, low in vegetables, and low in omega-3 fatty acids each accounting for more than 2 percent of deaths worldwide, a Global Burden of Disease study published in the medical journal The...

Philanthropic organizations whose endowments and influence can be traced back to industries that relied on exploitation and the extraction of natural resources can play a catalytic role in transitioning our current economic system, which is organized around limitless extraction and wealth accumulation, to one that is organized around...

While gentrification brings economic growth and better services to neighborhoods that have long suffered from disinvestment based on discriminatory practices, many longtime residents — most of whom are African American or Latinx — end up displaced by, instead of benefiting from, the influx of investment, a report from the National...

The Kresge Foundation's Fostering Urban Equitable Leadership program (FUEL), a capacity-building initiative designed to help grantees advance racial equity and achieve better outcomes in their organizations and communities, catalyzed participating nonprofits' sustained investment in leadership development through a racial equity lens, a case...

Effective afterschool programs can be found across all K-12 grade levels, from academically focused programs to multi-component programs that offer activities ranging from physical fitness to career development, a report from the Wallace Foundation finds. Based on a review of research published between 2000 and 2017, the report, Afterschool...

In Baltimore, predominantly white neighborhoods receive nearly four times the investment that majority African-American neighborhoods receive, a report from the Urban Institute finds. Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the report, 'The Black Butterfly': Racial Segregation and Investment Patterns in Baltimore, found that the legacy of...