Apr 30, 2021 | Catherine Crystal Foster
Catherine Crystal Foster is CEO and Co-Founder of Magnify Community, a 3-year effort to encourage Silicon Valley donors to both give more and give to their community. This was, in effect, a research project, and what she has learned is very much in line with what we...
Apr 1, 2021 | Robin Beck and Malachi Garza
We’ve been saying that philanthropy is about answering three essential questions: where to give, how to give and how much to give. The CCC focuses on “how much,” but it is very much connected to both “where” and “how.” Perhaps nowhere is this more clear than in...
Mar 24, 2021 | Aaron Dorfman and Ellen Dorsey
Fewer than a third of foundations pledged to increase the share of assets they distributed to meet Covid needs. That means that even as some foundations made admirable and sweeping commitments to do more, nonprofits struggled, businesses closed, and families...
Jan 12, 2021 | Ellen Friedman
I have to include this incredible piece by CCC signer Ellen Friedman, executive director of the Compton Foundation. It highlights the dilemma we face at the Crisis Charitable Commitment: on the one hand, we want foundations and UHNWIs to be more philanthropic, to give...
Dec 11, 2020 | Katie Smith Milway and William Galligan
The Lodestar Foundation funded a study by Katie Smith Milway and William Galligan that concludes that private foundations should “revisit their purpose, rethink their compact with government and society, and ask themselves where paying out more, sooner, may better...
