Exposing the almsgiving of COVID profiteers—a tale of a pandemic shell game; philanthropically funded surveillance in Baltimore eased under cover of COVID shutdown; how we need to approach a rethink of our local economies; & more!

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Why Grantmakers Need to Break Their Restriction Habit—Permanently

Restricted grants are like the cigarettes of the nonprofit world. They hurt the smoker and everyone around them. They permeate the air we breathe, shaping our systems and culture. It’s time to quit!

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Economic Justice and System Change: How Should Nonprofits Respond?

The pandemic has shone a bright light on the baked in structures of stark inequality in the US. In disruption we need to find the seeds of a more just rebuild of our economies.

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Profiteering & Self-Cheering: The Ruse of New Philanthropy in the Age of COVID

For folks like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, for whom the crisis has generated tens of billions, what constitutes a reasonable pandemic response? What we've seen so far is inadequate.

What Are the Arnolds Doing in Baltimore? Using COVID to Cover Sidestepping Democracy

The democracy-flouting aspects of this philanthropic “investment” in surveilling the residents of Baltimore are worsened by use of the shutdown to avoid public review.

With COVID Comes Changes to Higher Education—Will Some Be Permanent?

Faculty wonder if they will have jobs, and universities wonder if their existing students will remain enrolled for the fall. Will new students bother to pay on-campus prices for courses that may end up as online education?

Students Challenge Princeton on Plan to “Decrease Dependence” on Low-Wage Workers

A group of students challenge Princeton to not abandon its most vulnerable workers. Use that endowment, they urge!

In the Age of COVID-19, Whose Job Is It to Fight Racism?

It’s our collective national responsibility to call out racism wherever it occurs. It is not the responsibility of those targeted by it to prove anything.

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