The Infrastructure Behind the Infrastructure
August 6, 2018The digital space is the infrastructure we all depend on, writes Bernholz. But for civil society to secure its freedom of thought and action is a major challenge....
Features
Commentary and Opinion
Baltimore Children and Youth Fund: Community-Based Grantmaking Comes to Baltimore
August 13, 2018Diane Bell-McKoy, president of Associated Black Charities, highlights the importance of community-based grantmaking that not only gets resources to the community but does so in the most inclusive and transparent way possible....
Connections
August 18, 2018
A four-year initiative to focus the role of principal supervisors on supporting and developing principals with the goal of improving instruction is showing promising early outcomes, a report from the Wallace Foundation finds. The report, A New Role Emerges for Principal Supervisors: Evidence from Six Districts in the Principal Supervisor...
5 Questions for…
Ruth LaToison Ifill, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Council on Foundations
July 2, 2018
PND spoke with LaToison Ifill about the ways in which CoF is working with member foundations to promote DEI across the sector, the importance of data and intersectionality to that work, and the impact funders can have on the racial leadership gap at nonprofits....
Newsmakers
July 22, 2018
PND spoke with Tabron, who became president and CEO of the foundation in January 2014 after serving in numerous leadership positions there over twenty-six years, about the foundation's Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation work, the importance of emerging leadership in such work, and what institutional philanthropy can do to advance those efforts....
NPO Spotlight
She's the First
August 7, 2018
Founded in 2009 by two women via YouTube video, She's the First supports girls who will be first in their families to graduate from high school and trains students everywhere to become leaders in their communities....
On the Web
August 17, 2018
The LRA Crisis Tracker is a dynamic and publicly accessible mapping tool that displays up-to-date activity data of armed groups in an interactive format, enabling users to better understand the urgency of the LRA crisis as well as the broader security threats in the region to its human population, wildlife, and natural resources....
Off the Shelf
Unicorns Unite: How Nonprofits & Foundations Can Build EPIC Partnerships
July 24, 2018
Written by Jessamyn Shams-Lau, executive director of the Peery Foundation, Jane Leu, founder and CEO of Smarter Good, and Vu Le, executive director of Rainier Valley Corps, Unicorns Unite is, according to reviewer Aleda Gagarin, "a highly creative attempt to deconstruct the classic dichotomy between grantmaker and grantseeker"....
