Topic: Race & Social Justice
In Brief: Manels Before #MeToo
A foundation’s early criticism of the all-male conference panel, before #nomoremanels
In Brief: The South African Institute of Race Relations
How did a US foundation manage to work under apartheid?
In Brief: The 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference
The global conversation about women’s issues takes a big step forward.
Programming for the People: Diversity in Early Public Television
How philanthropy helped carve out a public space for the expression of race, culture, and critical perspectives.
Who Belongs in the Boy Scouts? Philanthropy’s Support for Black Scouting
A foundation struggled to make one of America’s oldest youth organizations more racially inclusive. But it only got so far under Jim Crow.
In Brief: James Baldwin’s Creative Writer’s Fellowship
How a foundation provided the final ingredient to an era-defining novel.
Funding a Sexual Revolution: The Kinsey Reports
The inside story of the study that first questioned binary sexuality and spurred outcry and controversy.
Ted Watkins and the Rockefeller Foundation: An Unlikely Partnership
How a charismatic community activist from Watts challenged a foundation’s civil rights strategy through a jobs training program.
Photo Essay: Mexico and the Launch of the Green Revolution
One foundation’s program in Mexico created the blueprint for ending hunger worldwide.
“Investment Philanthropy” Investing for Social Good, a Century Ago
An early twentieth-century foundation tried using its endowment to support for-profit projects that also would achieve a social goal.