Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

The Ford Foundation announced last week that it would roughly double its grantmaking in each of the next two years. This is terrific as the immense challenges of the present moment require this type of outside the box thinking by foundations.

Our national crisis of disparity and despair will not be healed through what has somehow become a normative disaster response in philanthropy, where foundations spend a little more and nonprofits struggle to meet a surge in demand.

To move a $2.6 billion infrastructure project, in the face of strong opposition, takes a daunting amount of power. How is a regional foundation to tap so much force?

COVID-19 has pulled back the curtain on so much that is wrong in our society. For the Groundswell community, what is behind the curtain is not new.