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Despite the need for peacebuilding dollars, U.S. philanthropies’ support for that work suffers from a lack of viable metrics. Search for Common Ground is tackling a complex task: how to better measure peace.
The war in Ukraine offers scope for funders to draw on their strengths to assist the embattled nation. For the Simons Foundation, that means helping Ukraine's physicists, biologists and other scientists continue their work.
The Howard G. Buffett Foundation has moved nearly $150 million to Ukraine since the war began. Buffett himself has spent a lot of time in the country, learning about needs and responding with a wide-ranging set of grants.
Though touted as a force for progress, digital technology has negatively impacted many workers, especially in the Global South. A new report backed by the Ford Foundation lays out the problem and how funders can respond.
With support from major U.S. funders, a new initiative called M-POWER is combining the forces of government, philanthropy and labor organizations to bolster workers’ rights and advance democracy.
Michelle Obama, Melinda French Gates and Amal Clooney joined forces this fall to take on child marriage, a human rights violation that affects an estimated 23 girls a minute. Here’s what each philanthropist is bringing to the table.
The wedding industry has a $160 billion market value, and it continues to grow. With organizational support from some big funders, VOW for Girls is channeling a slice of those profits toward ending child marriage.
Despite the doom-and-gloom headlines, local civil society around the world is making real progress on human rights. Outgoing head of the Fund for Global Human Rights encourages funders to stay diligent, and offers a path forward.
Backed by the Ford Foundation and others, a recent report from the Safer Storytellers Project outlines the steps funders can take to protect creators from increasing attacks and threats to their safety.
Although international law forbids it, destruction of sites with cultural significance is common during war. In Ukraine, hundreds of such places have been damaged. Getty recently backed an effort to protect the nation’s heritage.
The Council on Foundations’ latest State of Global Giving Report analyzed funding data from 2015 and 2019 and surveyed field leaders about the years since. Here are five key takeaways.
The Packard Foundation has been funding reproductive rights and health for more than 50 years, and has awarded millions in additional emergency grants this year. Here’s what it funds, including a closer look at a few key grantees.
In this guest piece, Milica Petrovic of the European Programme for Integration and Migration discusses what philanthropy should keep in mind about emergency funding, drawing on lessons learned since Russia’s invasion.
Philanthropic funding for global peace and security has been trending down for a long time. Will the war in Ukraine make a difference? And how should peacebuilding philanthropy evolve to face 21st-century problems?
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis raised and donated millions for Ukraine. We take a look at what drove that effort, as well as what to expect from the couple, who have ties to both the entertainment and tech worlds.
The C.S. Mott Foundation’s work to bolster civil society in Ukraine goes back to the end of the Cold War. As new philanthropy flows in to aid the beleaguered country, here’s what Mott’s been doing there for decades.
At long last, our two-time winner for Philanthropist of the Year has dropped another Medium post—this time with the names of grantees included. Here are some key takeaways.
The conflict in Ukraine has sparked a humanitarian crisis at a scale the region hasn’t seen since World War II. Here are some of the ways philanthropic funders have stepped up for refugees and people staying in country.
In recent years, philanthropy’s efforts to promote democracy abroad—with OSF in the lead—have faced an uphill battle. What does Ukraine’s story of resilience tell us about such funding? And will more funders join the fight?
Launched in 2020, the Ford Global Fellowship supports leaders working to address the drivers of inequality around the globe. As a response to the pandemic, Ford has increased the number of fellows in its sophomore cohort.
The Ford Foundation is upping its support for advocacy on behalf of the world’s 2.1 billion informal workers, who’ve been severely impacted by COVID. The $25 million effort is financed by Ford’s social bond.
Despite a swiftly rising global female prison population, funding remains scarce for work with and for incarcerated women and girls. Guest authors Isabella Cordua and Sabrina Mahtani unpack the problem.
The MacArthur Foundation has funded global nuclear security since the 1980s, and is now in the process of wrapping up the program as one of its “big bets.” We take a look at its capstone nuclear funding, and the state of the field.
Guest authors Milena Bacalja Perianes and Odette Hekster make the case that philanthropy is neglecting menstrual health, to the detriment of the health and well-being of half the world’s population.
Backed by the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Kasa! will address a deeply under-resourced problem: sexual and gender-based violence in countries like Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal.
Since 1986, the LEGO Foundation has been supporting children based on a core belief in the “power of play.” When the pandemic hit, the funder had to reconfigure its giving to meet new, urgent needs.
Civil war has created a humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, killing thousands, including hundreds from starvation. A U.K.-based charity recently formed a $30 million partnership of three funders to support nutrition over five years.
Atieno Odhiambo is heading the new Legal Empowerment Fund at the Fund for Global Human Rights. In this guest contribution, she discusses how backing local advocates is essential to closing the global justice gap.
George Soros’ philanthropy is making sweeping changes to streamline its work and put more grantmaking in local hands. We’ve got the latest details, including closure of some funding streams and a fifth of program staff possibly departing.
The Red Umbrella Fund launched in 2012 as an international participatory grantmaker led by sex workers. We chat with coordinator Paul-Gilbert Colletaz about the global fund’s evolution and its participatory approach.