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Activists From Strength : What You Need to Know to Be a Disability and Gender-Inclusive Funder
Get PDFTo foster dialogue and advance inclusive, intersectional, and sustainable movements for gender and disability justice, Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism (UAF-FA) and Women Enabled International (WEI) have collaborated on this report, which outlines the principal challenges faced by disability rights activists and provides recommendations for funders seeking to support initiatives at the intersection of gender and disability
2025 Communities Need Clinics Report
Get PDFIndependent abortion clinics provide the majority of abortions in the U.S., providing care when and where others do not – yet providing and accessing abortion care has become increasingly challenging in 2025. Providers and patients must navigate abortion bans, extremist violence and harassment, legal threats, and a lack of resources deep enough to close clinics
Transformando la FilantropÃa 2025: Familia, Empresa & Sociedad
Get PDFThis year's edition of Transformando la FilantropÃa by Filantrópico reflects on the evolution of Colombia's philanthropic culture - from a tradition shaped by colonial legacies and family inheritance to a growing movement rooted in purpose, collaboration, and long-term impact. Drawing on 25 years of comparative research between the United States, Colombia, and Latin America, the report highlights the structural barriers that have limited a stronger culture of giving, including distrust, fragmented efforts, and the absence of incentives. Yet it also celebrates Colombia's vibrant social ecosystem, longstanding family foundations, and the emergence of new generations who see philanthropy not as charity, but as a strategic commitment to country-building. Marking Filantrópico's 15-year anniversary, this publication invites families, organisations, and allies to shift from accumulation to impact - building legacies that endure, bridge generations, and help shape a more just and inclusive future for the region
Strengthening the Urban Harbor: Policy & Investment Recommendations for Boston's Working Ports
Get PDFOverview of the StudyBoston's working ports, much of which lie in Designated Port Areas (DPAs), face unprecedented challenges. Competing regulatory, economic, and real estate priorities in Greater Boston have subjected these vital maritime industrial zones to enhanced political scrutiny and significant market pressure. These challenges are not all unique to Boston; working waterfronts across the country and the world are grappling with similar pressures as cities seek to balance maritime industrial uses, which can have regional economic importance, with valuable waterfront urban development and public access to the water, which create more local value. In Boston, this pressure has led to legislative attempts to circumvent established State industrial land use policy by removing areas from a DPA to realize other local economic and community development priorities. Unfortunately, once waterfront industrial land is converted to other uses, it is effectively impossible to restore its maritime industrial capacity.The Boston Waterfront Partners (BWP) is a coalition of non-profit organizations and non-profit community-based organizations dedicated to the sustainable development and equitable use of Boston's waterfront areas. Recognizing the importance of the region's maritime industrial economy and the needs of waterfront communities, BWP has taken a proactive approach to addressing the complex challenges facing DPAs.The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) conducted a comprehensive statewide analysis of DPAs. To complement and inform this broader effort, BWP initiated a focused study of Boston's four Inner Harbor DPAs: South Boston, East Boston, Mystic River, and Chelsea Creek—all part of the Mystic River Watershed. This targeted approach allows for a deeper examination of the unique conditions and challenges facing these specific areas in Boston's evolving urban landscape.The study provides an initial roadmap for the stewardship of Boston's working waterfront, ensuring that these vital economic assets continue to thrive while meeting adjacent communities' needs for open space and adapting to 21st-century environmental and economic needs. The study team employed a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative data analysis, qualitative stakeholder engagement, and case study research
Priorities for Strategic Climate and Environmental Philanthropy
Get PDFClimate disasters—including intensified droughts, wildfires, storms, and flooding—are on the rise globally, with cascading negative impacts on communities and ecosystems. Philanthropists can play a crucial role in addressing these challenges, but currently, only about 2 percent of global philanthropic contributions are directed toward climate mitigation. Increased strategic giving is needed across many areas of climate and environmental initiatives.This report offers guidance for philanthropists looking to begin or deepen their climate and environmental giving. Drawing on insights from over fifty expert interviews, as well as the Institute's ongoing climate and environmental work, the report presents ten recommendations for philanthropists and highlights four strategic areas where philanthropic capital can maximize impact. With these insights, philanthropists can help remove financial and logistical barriers, scale proven solutions, and create new opportunities to address climate challenges
Defending and Advancing Climate Justice Policies: A comprehensive and deep analysis by state and national policy experts of pathways for action
Get PDFThis report is a collaborative effort by policy experts across sectors such as environmental, climate, racial, public health, and economic justice, designed to address potential challenges to climate and environmental justice in the United States under the current makeup of leadership in Washington, DC. It also proposes mitigating actions to address these threats, including at the state and local levels, as well as strategic litigation and federal oversight actions
Museum Development in Postcolonial West Africa, 1980-2000: A Reading from the Archives
Get PDFThis report outlines a research trip funded by a Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) Â stipend to use its archives in Sleepy Hollow, NY in February 2024. This archival research significantly enhances my doctoral project that explores the Guinea-Bissauan cultural heritage by tracing memory institutions' history and gathering narratives from civil society, within the field of post-colonial studies. This study focuses on the 'National Ethnographic' or 'National Museum' of Guinea-Bissau, established with international cooperation in 1988, and closed in 1998 due to a civil war. The RAC contains documentation of Ford Foundation grants for cultural projects and museums in West Africa, providing insights into the significance of international cooperation in sustaining such projects. The research specifically examines the International African Institute, later known as the West African Museums Project and the West African Museum Programme
"Training as against Doing": Teaching the Language of Development at the Saudi Institute of Public Administration
Get PDFThis report observes the activities of the Ford Foundation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1962 to 1972), which officially proceeded under the auspices of "administrative reform," and the contract logics by which it delivered such assistance. The Ford Foundation's efforts to reorganize and staff the newly established Saudi bureaucracy were considered a preliminary step within a larger endeavor to raise the capacity of the Kingdom's human resources - simultaneously understood to be both the targets and means of national development. At this time, economic development in the Middle East was bundled with programming across public administration, education, and agricultural projects, and emphasized training as a primary investment in the capacity to modernize both national economies and individual subjectivities. The nationals of countries classified as "less developed" were thus the focal subjects -- and objects -- of development assistance, which affirmed a conceit held by Ford Foundation experts that the implementation of development plans must be undertaken by a client government's own manpower, also developing as it were. In the interest of cultivating the government employee base necessary to bring about administrative reform in Saudi Arabia, the Ford Foundation proposed (in 1964) and helped to coordinate (beginning in 1965) an English Language Program designed for Saudi civil servants from within the Kingdom's Institute of Public Administration. It carefully supervised the recruitment and staffing of this program, which was executed through an "unusually complex" arrangement of subcontracts with other non-Saudi organizations. Correspondences and reports related to this program populate the records filed under the Ford Foundation grant 06290135 and they indicate the Foundation's considerable focus on training, amid its concurrent, far-reaching advisory efforts in Saudi Arabia
The Greenwall Foundation 2024 Annual Report
Get PDFMore than ever, bioethics has a critical role to play in health care, policy, and research—making this an opportune moment to launch The Greenwall Foundation's inaugural Annual Report. As science and medicine march on, bioethics issues multiply and evolve. At The Greenwall Foundation, we address these critical issues by cultivating bioethics' emerging leaders, promoting a broad and inclusive field, and ensuring that the important work of bioethics scholars informs policy and practice. The end goal is to improve people's lives
Finance and farming: Understanding development finance and industrial animal agriculture in Vietnam
Get PDFThis report examines the role of public development banks in financing industrial animal agriculture in Vietnam, highlighting the complex interplay between economic development goals, food security, and environmental sustainability. Vietnam's livestock sector, dominated by pig and poultry production, is undergoing a significant transition from traditional smallholder farming to industrial animal agriculture, driven by government policies, rising local and global meat demand, and corporate investment. Despite climate commitments, public development banks like the World Bank Group and Asian Development Bank continue to provide significant funding for industrial livestock operations, feed production, and processing infrastructure in Vietnam. This financing often contradicts sustainability goals and contributes to environmental degradation, while transparency and accountability remain significant challenges. The report explores the institutional drivers behind this funding, including deeply embedded beliefs in development banks about animal protein's importance for nutrition and development. In addition to identifying structural barriers to change, the report also points out emerging opportunities, such as growing recognition of sustainability issues and rising consumer awareness. For frontline organizations and policymakers, the report provides practical recommendations to redirect development finance toward sustainable alternatives, from leveraging accountability frameworks to promoting transition finance models that support smallholders and regenerative agriculture practices, ultimately calling for a just agricultural transition in Vietnam