Author: Dean Spade
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Navigating conflict in movement spaces
A lot of groups and projects break apart because of internal conflict. Here are some pointers on how to engage in productive conversations to keep movements together. This article is adapted from a Mutual Aid 101 session Shareable hosted on November 20, 2025, titled “Navigating conflict when building power with Dean Spade.” Access to the…
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NC Children’s hospital receives $25 million for youth mental health
The award from Charlotte-based Coca-Cola Consolidated will back the development of facilities that will provide comprehensive care to address the medical, emotional, and psychological needs and social well-being of children and their families across North Carolina…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Corporate Governance in Nonprofit Organizations: A Systematic Review of Theories, Practices, and Emerging Trends
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This systematic review examines corporate governance in nonprofit organizations by synthesizing 55 peer-reviewed studies published between 2015 and 2025. The review explores key theoretical frameworks, governance dimensions, and empirical findings, while … Goto full post >>
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Hackensack medical school receives $10 million for scholarships
The gift from Helena Theurer will fund four annual $100,000 scholarships for medical students at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in New Jersey to help address the ongoing national physician shortage…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Gates Foundation announces $9 billion budget, plans to cut staff
The Seattle-based foundation plans to spend $9 billion in 2026, allocating 70 percent of its budget to advance efforts focused on global health, and plans to cut as many as 500 staff positions over the next five years…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Mott Foundation pledges to disburse $2 billion in next decade
In the coming decade, the foundation plans to award up to $370 million to boost education in its hometown of Flint, Michigan—including $100 million for school facilities—and $200 million in support of national youth engagement…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Rotary International receives $50 million from Ravishankar Dakoju
The commitment from the Indian real estate developer and his wife, Paola—both longtime Rotarians—follows a $14.7 million gift in 2018 to the global humanitarian and philanthropic network…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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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 >>