Author: Celina Su
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People’s Budgets Insist on Care First—for and by Everyone
This story was originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly on November 4, 2025: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/peoples-budgets-insist-on-care-first-for-and-by-everyone/ State of the Movements is a recurring NPQ column dedicated to tracking the pulse of social movements and the solidarity economy in 2025. In the shadow of federal layoffs, President Donald Trump’s administration has inadvertently revealed that budgets are not neutral. Rather, public budgets are moral documents that expose…
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Funders back program for school principal training in Permian Basin
Awards to the Holdsworth Center include $2.1 million from the Scharbauer Foundation, $100,000 from the Still Water Foundation, and $2.7 million from the Permian Strategic Partnership to help train 100 principals in 42 school districts across Texas and southeast New Mexico…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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A Time for Solutions
Resources that Make Climate Justice Work We have heard it all before: “well, if we had more funding, we would do x” or “we had a lot of momentum going on this project, but it was only funded for a year, so we have to focus on other priorities.” In the eleven years I’ve spent in the…
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FHLB Atlanta awards $11.7 million for affordable housing projects
The 32 grants of up to $500,000 from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta will help wrap up projects to create or preserve more than 1,900 affordable housing units across the American southeast…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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A Time for Solutions: Part Two
Creative and Intentional Resourcing In 2021, Walton, along with key frontline Climate Justice leaders, played a key role in helping to reallocate $141 million from the Bezos Earth Fund to frontline accountable intermediaries, with The Solutions Project (TSP) receiving $43 million themselves. Additionally, TSP co-developed three movement support funds with frontline organizations, The Justice 40 Accelerator, Communicating Our Power Fund and The Fund for Frontline Power (A note that…
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Lake Chelan Community Center achieves $2 million match challenge
Launched in early October, the matching effort received 154 gifts from 142 individuals, families, and organizations…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Pivotal Philanthropies receives $7.9 billion from Gates Foundation
The payment, part of the $12.5 billion agreement in the divorce between Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, boosts Pivotal Philanthropies among the country’s largest private foundation…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Three Misconceptions Impeding More Action from FundersPhil Buchanan President, CEP
Editor’s note: This is the first in what will be a monthly blog column by CEP President Phil Buchanan in 2026. His posts will generally run on the second Tuesday […] The post Three Misconceptions Impeding More Action from FundersPhil Buchanan President, CEP appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
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United Way of Central Florida awards over $5 million in three counties
UWCF approved a 5.5 percent year-over-year increase in funding to 55 programs in Polk and Hardee counties and 14 in Highlands County, affecting more than 180,000 people in the tri-county area…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Gates, in annual letter, strikes optimistic note as challenges mount
The letter from the co-founder and chair of the Gates Foundation focuses on key areas where AI and related technologies alongside reaffirmed commitments will vastly improve people’s lives around the world, while cautioning that failure to act will have devastating effects in the near future…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Bloch Foundation awards $20 million to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The award from the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation will fund extensive renovations to the Kansas City, Missouri, museum’s 20-year-old glass-pavilioned Bloch Building. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Rutgers receives $1.5 million for Alzheimer's research program
The award from the Norman and Mary Pattiz Foundation to the New Jersey university’s Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center will fund the training of physician-scientists to help accelerate discoveries and new treatments for dementia…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Glen Taylor commits $100 million to southern Minnesota philanthropy
The transfer of land and securities to the Taylor Family Farms Foundation will add to the $173 million contributed in 2023 and enable the Mankato-based philanthropy to better fund its regional community partners in rural southern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Podcast Episode 21: Testing Our Assumptions through Local Insights
GiveWell has built its reputation on rigorous research—analyzing randomized controlled trials, building cost-effectiveness models, and reviewing monitoring data to identify cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives. In an effort to supplement this desk research and make better decisions, we’ve been working to gather more information directly from the people who live and work in…
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10 Principles of Next Economy Enterprises: A Guide for Designing a Regenerative Future
The 10 Principles of Next Economy Enterprises serve as critical guideposts for designing organizations from a socially just and environmentally regenerative perspective. They are emergent and malleable, derived from work with hundreds of social enterprises. Here is an outline of the 10 principles: 10 Principles of Next Economy Enterprises 1. Meet Basic Needs This principle…
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes to close
The decision to close was made so that CPB would not be vulnerable to political manipulation or misuse in the future and to protect the independence of public media and staff and board members from legal exposure to bad-faith actors…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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St. Vincent’s Medical Center receives $15 million for cancer care
The gift from the estate of Neil Mellen will fund renovations to the Bridgeport, Connecticut, hospital’s oncology unit, including new treatment spaces, enhanced patient comfort features, and advanced technology to support cancer care…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>