Stephanie Chrispin, Public Policy Fellow at Philanthropy New York, reflects on the difficulties and rewards of managing the organization's first high school intern.
The aim is to help "change the landscape" of American racial discourse by openly acknowledging a painful past, much as Germany has Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state-sanctioned segregation - apartheid.
Tenured professor jobs are even harder to come by, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program officer Andrew Bengochea said, and Latino students need more institutional and foundational support to persist, particularly in humanities disciplines.
Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The Atlantic Philanthropies, co-edits a new book that addresses the profound and life-altering consequences students face—especially young people of...
Gail Ablow, Carnegie Visiting Media Fellow, Democracy, writes about foundations that are funding the right—and the fight—to vote by working collaboratively to engage the next generation of leaders.
Edgar Villanueva, VP of Programs & Advocacy at The Schott Foundation for Public Education urges philanthropy to see the tremendous potential in Native communities.
Yvonne L. Moore of Moore Philanthropy says she and Black colleagues share the deeply frustrating experience of having decisions, grant recommendations and analyses consistently questioned, unjustly critiqued and sometimes even undermined.
Roz Lee of Arcus Foundation hopes you will view funding transgender communities as similar to a prism, with each facet representing an area of focus already supported by the philanthropic sector.
Susan Olivo of the Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation and Cynthia Rivera Weissblum of the Edwin Gould Foundation write about issues hindering diversity in philanthropy.