Topic: Housing

Prompted by Reagan-era budget cuts, a new program serving low-income single parents receiving public aid failed to meet its constituents’ needs.

Delving into a century of philanthropic engagement with race, from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era.

An early twentieth-century foundation tried using its endowment to support for-profit projects that also would achieve a social goal.

In 1968, the Ford Foundation began to make social investments using a new tool borrowed from the for-profit world, the Program-Related Investment.

One small grant gave enduring voice to one of the most famous critiques of postwar urban renewal, while another huge grant went to an opposing cause.