Topic: Race & Social Justice

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A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.

Moving scholarship by and about women from margin to center.

In the years before Brown v. Board, a philanthropic fund hoped research and data would turn the tide on attitudes toward segregation.

Philanthropy helped carve out a public space for the expression of race, culture, and critical perspectives.

A foundation struggled to make one of America’s oldest youth organizations more racially inclusive. But it only got so far under Jim Crow.

How a foundation provided the final ingredient to an era-defining novel.

The inside story of the study that first questioned binary sexuality and spurred outcry and controversy.

How a charismatic community activist from Watts challenged a foundation’s civil rights strategy through a jobs training program.

One foundation’s program in Mexico created the blueprint for ending hunger worldwide.

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.

How a simple grant request seeded the launch of a full program addressing inequality.

Battling hookworm on rural farms laid the groundwork for a global public health system.