Mike Scutari

The Doris Duke Foundation’s Building Bridges Program has sought to create a more inclusive society since 2007. Director Zeyba Rahman explains how the program’s support for U.S. Muslim creatives is evolving.

Ric DeVore joined the community foundation in 2022 after a career in the financial services industry. He talks about the foundation’s new strategic plan, its relationship with another key philanthropy in the region, and more.

The foundation’s U.S. Democracy Program Director Ali Noorani talks elections, trust, misinformation, and how to build centrist and bipartisan constituencies.

Nexus Community Partners’ $50 million Open Road Fund aims to help descendants of the Atlantic slave trade build and sustain wealth. Fund Director Danielle Mkali walks us through how it works.

The Austin-based health funder’s VP of community investments joined us to discuss her lifelong engagement with public policy, why philanthropy really does need to address the social determinants of health, and more.

We connected with a financial planner whose clients received unexpected gifts from MacKenzie Scott on how nonprofits can plan for a massive windfall. One key action item: revisiting endowment strategies.

Since taking the helm at the community funder in 2015, Michelle Prater has overseen a significant jump in its assets and discretionary giving. We connected with her about her career path, the foundation’s current work and more.

Arts-focused funding vehicles established by people of color account for a small but important segment of a sprawling arts ecosystem. Here are five of them.

Giving USA found that due to ongoing inflationary pressure, real giving declined by 2.1% in 2023. Could funders have done more?

Geri Mannion, Managing Director of Carnegie’s U.S. Democracy program. Photo: Carnegie Corporation of New York