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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

A Hidden Burden on Low-Income Communities That Philanthropy Can Help Fix

Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 14, 2024. Matched-fund requirements make accessing federal infrastructure and climate dollars all but impossible for the very communities grant makers seek to help.

Inside Philanthropy

Philanthropy Needs to Rethink Its Approach to Civic Engagement

Philanthropy Southwest

Civic & Community Engagement in Southwestern Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Promise of Community-Driven Science

Inside Philanthropy

Social Justice Philanthropy Restructures to Focus on Power

Inside Philanthropy

From "Keep Out" to "Please Come In." Opening Up Grants Processes Leads to More Equity

Scientific American

Whose Job Is It to Help Build Public Trust in Science?

Chronicle of Philanthropy

Philanthropy Can't Solve the Toughest Problems Unless It Breaks Out of Silos

Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE)

The Scientist as Civic Partner

Investigative Reporting Workshop

A journalist who sought to democratize data

Aspen Institute

To Fix a Broken Internet, Coders Revisit Their Code of Ethics

media.am

New Models for Civic Engagement in a New Information Landscape

Columbia Journalism Review

Disinformation with a Silicon Valley ethos

Columbia Journalism Review

What the news media can learn from librarians

Investigative Reporting Workshop

Whatever You Do, Keep Moving Forward

HuffPost

My Former Editor, Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

Investigative Reporting Workshop

Researchers collect data to reform policing

Longreads

The Art and Science of Failure

Huff Post

Seeking To Escape Metrics’ Tyranny, An Editor Asks, “Why?”

Christian Science Monitor

With youth pounding at kingdom's gates, Saudi Arabia begins religious police reform

Columbia Journalism Review

Big kingdom, small window

The Root

Obama Step-Grandma on Women's Rights

Global Investigative Journalism Network

“Keep Moving Forward” — Ideas for African Media

Select Publications

A Hidden Burden on Low-Income Communities That Philanthropy Can Help Fix

March 14, 2024

Philanthropy Needs to Rethink Its Approach to Civic Engagement

May 25, 2023

Civic & Community Engagement in Southwestern Philanthropy

May 10, 2023

The Promise of Community-Driven Science

January 12, 2022

Social Justice Philanthropy Restructures to Focus on Power

February 12, 2020

How Philanthropy Can Help Lead on Data Justice

February 6, 2020

From “Keep Out” to “Please Come In.” Opening Up Grants Processes Leads to More Equity

August 7, 2019

Whose Job Is It to Help Build Public Trust in Science?

March 19, 2019

Philanthropy Can’t Solve the Toughest Problems Unless It Breaks Out of Silos

March 5, 2019

The Scientist as Civic Partner

June 11, 2018

Science’s Trust Problem

May 15, 2018

How Civic Actors Can Collaborate to Advance the Public Good

February 12, 2018

Science’s Next Frontier? It’s Civic Engagement

November 13, 2017

A journalist who sought to democratize data

September 3, 2017

To Fix a Broken Internet, Coders Revisit Their Code of Ethics

July 24, 2017

Universities race to safeguard government data under Trump

March 7, 2017

Disinformation with a Silicon Valley ethos

January 18, 2017

New Models for Civic Engagement in a New Information Landscape

January 18, 2017

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