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Subject: How the 10 Biggest Foundations Changed in a Year of Covid — and What’s Next
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Minnesota’s Bush Foundation will invest $100 million in efforts to close the wealth gap between whites, on the one hand, and Black people and Native Americans on the other. By making grants so people can start a business, buy a home, or attend college, the foundation hopes to build wealth in communities living with the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and land confiscation. On average, the net worth of Blacks and Native Americans amounts to pennies for the dollar of the net worth of white people. The foundation is looking for organizations to distribute the grants, which will go to people in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and 23 Native nations. It is committing another $50 million to a broader range of racial or minority groups to address systemic issues that feed the wealth gap. (Pioneer Press)
Food banks, which have faced the Herculean task of feeding the surge of people in need during the pandemic, warn the hunger crisis will persist longer than the scourge of Covid. Amid challenging new safety protocols and logistical complications, food banks handed out about 50 percent more food in 2020 than in 2019. Feeding America’s 200 food banks gave away 6.1 billion pounds of food from April through December last year, compared with 4 billion in the same period in 2019. Along with sending food, many food banks made grants to smaller distributors, such as food pantries and soup kitchens, for new refrigerators and the resulting higher utility bills, for example. The Greater Chicago Food Depository kept its network of 700 sites running this way, but the organization’s director worries that donors will drift away once the immediate crisis seems to have passed. (New York Times)
Plus: In a Suburban Parking Lot, a Portrait of Unyielding Need at a Food Giveaway (Washington Post)
Detroit Institute of Arts Board Members Resign in Dispute Over Controversial Director (Detroit News)
Corporations Are Working With Social Media Influencers and Nonprofits to Cancel-Proof Their Racial-Justice Efforts (Washington Post)
Top 100 Art Museums Revealed as Attendance Drops by 77% Worldwide (Art Newspaper)
Heavy Cartel Presence Doesn’t Deter Border Nonprofit From Helping Stranded Migrants (Border Report)
Billionaire Names 4 Everyday Citizens Who Will Get a Chance to Go to Space — and Raises Money for St. Jude (New York Times)
Questions Raised About Link Between Bloomberg Donations and Getting His Media Business Employees Vaccinated (New York Times)
