Author: Chloe Heskett
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A Perilous Moment in the ‘Long Arc’: Day Three at CEP2025Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP
The third and final day of CEP2025 began with a concise but comprehensive history lesson: Kelly Lytle Hernández, Thomas E. Lifka endowed chair in history professor at UCLA presented a […] The post A Perilous Moment in the ‘Long Arc’: Day Three at CEP2025Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP appeared first on…
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‘The Light Is Already On’: Day Two at CEP2025Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP
As elections took place across the U.S., day two of CEP’s 2025 conference got underway and democracy in the U.S. — and around the world — was a key theme […] The post ‘The Light Is Already On’: Day Two at CEP2025Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP appeared first on The Center…
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Grounded in Data: Day One of CEP2025Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP
Philanthropy leaders from across the U.S. and around world gathered in downtown L.A. on Monday amid fanfare as the city celebrated back-to-back World Series wins for the Dodgers. The more […] The post Grounded in Data: Day One of CEP2025Chloe Heskett Senior Writer, Editor & Content Strategist, CEP appeared first on The Center for Effective…
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Beyond the Spreadsheets: Malawi Site Visit Podcast Series
Our Beyond the Spreadsheets podcast mini-series lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi. Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares the behind-the-scenes experience of a GiveWell site visit through real-time reflections and clips of conversations. At GiveWell, the vast majority of our work is desk-based…
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Safe Water Projects: Saving Lives and Improving Our Grantmaking
Clean water. Most of us take it for granted. We can turn on the tap and have safe water to drink whenever we want, without having to give it a second thought. That’s not the case for more than a billion people around the world who lack access to uncontaminated drinking water. This is a…
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Changes in Volunteering Landscape in South Korea During COVID-19: Trajectories of Volume and Engagement Patterns
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the global volunteer sector, yet its long-term impacts remain insufficiently explored. This study uses 4.7 million records from the 1365 Volunteer Portal (2019–2022) to examine formal volunteering trends in … Goto full post >>
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How Sudanese women are building lifelines from the ashes of war
Naema Abdullah stands over a blackened pot of bubbling oil, her hands moving with practiced ease as she drops small rounds of dough into the heat. Around her, three women work in steady rhythm—one kneading, another packaging the golden luqaimat, the fried dough balls beloved across Sudan, and a third calling out orders from neighbors. …
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NCRP Honors the Women Donors Network with Its “Mover and Shaker” Impact Award for Bold Peer Organizing
NCRP Honors the Women Donors Network with Its “Mover and Shaker” Impact Award for Bold Peer Organizing WASHINGTON, DC – As a network of more than 250 individual donor activists who harness their collective power for justice, Women Donors Network (WDN) and its c4 sibling organization WDN Action have mobilized over $140 million to the…
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NCRP Honors Bush Foundation with its “Smashing Silos” Impact Award for Intersectional Grantmaking
NCRP Honors Bush Foundation with its “Smashing Silos” Impact Award for Intersectional Grantmaking WASHINGTON, DC – Since its origin in 1953, the Bush Foundation has held fast to the belief that “wealth should be used for the benefit of all humanity.” Now, with a historic $200 million commitment to addressing racial wealth gaps, the foundation…
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NCRP Honors Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt with its Pablo Eisenberg Memorial Prize for Philanthropy Criticism
NCRP Honors Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt with its Pablo Eisenberg Memorial Prize for Philanthropy Criticism WASHINGTON, DC – The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) recognizes two visionary leaders whose decades of fearless critique and advocacy have helped shape both the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. The Philanthropy Project’s Jon Pratt and Jan Masaoka have…
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Chile’s solidarity economy is growing
Chile has emerged from decades of often brutal dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet with a dynamic and growing economy—and deepened social and economic inequalities. Pinochet’s neoliberal economic policies have concentrated wealth among the few and left significant portions of the population behind. In 2017, 56 percent of the lowest-income population earned, on average, only $258…
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How the liberal city paved the way to neoliberalism
In 1979, a few years after New York’s fiscal crisis, New York City mayor Ed Koch posed for a photograph alongside Donald Trump. Mayor Koch despised the welfare state and cut it severely during his tenure. He also partnered with developers like Trump to promote real estate growth, in the hope that it would prevent…