After his sole heir died, Eddie Smith, the owner of Grady-White Boats, looked for a way to pass on his legacy. He was inspired by Patagonia to pledge future profits to charity.

Young people want large-scale systemic change but reject elite social-service pathways that manage inequity rather than challenging it.

National Grid’s new marketplace seeks batteries, EV chargers, and other distributed energy resources to help relieve stressed grid circuits. Here’s how it…

As the world’s wealthiest touch down in Davos for the World Economic Forum, hundreds of the ultra-rich—including the Disney heirs and millionaire real estate developer Jeffrey Gural—call on leaders to...

An Interior Department memo is hampering wind and solar on public lands. It’s one of many federal actions slowing the build-out of cheap, clean energy.

New York’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised to make every city bus free to ride. Dunkirk did so more than a decade ago — and is reaping the rewards.

M any purpose-driven businesses feel stuck — wedged between fear of being targeted by government actors who oppose “woke” practices and anxiety about turnin ...

A conversation with leading funders on effective responses to crisis, getting unstuck, and whether philanthropy is doing enough.

After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...

The costs of Donald Trump’s climate sabotage

Pete Hegseth’s department is imposing restrictions that threaten to limit media scrutiny.

Financing community ownership: Scaling models that build wealth and expand affordable housing.

San Francisco and California will be better off than the rest of the country, but residents will still feel the sting of tariff-induced inflation.

Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

Financing community ownership: Scaling models that build wealth and expand affordable housing.

Op-ed: Circular retail is not just about what we buy, but how and where we buy it.

Joe Rogan is spreading climate misinformation on one of the country’s most popular podcasts, scientists say—and he’s not the only one.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

“Wearing masks is not necessary for ICE to perform its functions,” writes UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

We talked with Davis, the initiative's founder, about confronting concentrated wealth and how philanthropy can move the needle on billionaire greed.

The DOE’s emergency stay-open orders for aging fossil-fuel plants are forcing unexpected costs onto utility customers. Additional orders would deepen the…

Reports of increased payout are everywhere, but the same names predominate. To what extent is the sector actually increasing its funding in response to Trump's cuts?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is culling layoff information from news reports and 48 WARN databases. This estimate is unavailable elsewhere because the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes unempl...

The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

State regulators, consumer advocates, and environmental groups say the Department of Energy is acting illegally in forcing aging, costly power plants to…

Christina Gordon of the Women’s Foundation of Boston counters a “troubling narrative”: that just because many men and boys struggle, grantmakers should pay less attention to programs for women and gir...

Fake job candidates. Fake recruiters. Fake sales. Welcome to the Deepfake Economy.

"The deterrence logic doesn’t hold": A recent analysis finds that encampments bans and other local ordinances aimed at unhoused populations don't actually lead to decreased homelessness.

The backlash against fair-weather policies is a reminder: DEI isn’t a fad or a PR stunt; it’s a reflection of the world as it is, and the world consumer...

Delta Air Lines, BP and Toyota are among the few companies to buck the trend.

Inside the rise and fall of the 'business for good' era that defined the past 15 years—and what the future holds for stakeholder capitalism.

Inside the rise and fall of the 'business for good' era that defined the past 15 years—and what the future holds for stakeholder capitalism.