Michael Kavate
Senior Reporter at Inside Philanthropy
Senior Reporter @InsidePhilanthr. Cover climate + environment + billionaires. BCN resident. Long-time Californian. Not active on X, but check DMs, etc. He/him.
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8 hours ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | Michael Kavate
What’s next for climate philanthropy? That’s the question I have been trying to ask climate funders since early this year. I have attempted to get on the phone with legacy foundations, billionaire-backed operations, the nation’s largest green groups and some of the largest regrantors in the world. But as I wrote last month, very few are willing to say anything right now, and those that do often ask for anonymity.
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2 days ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | Michael Kavate
Since President Donald Trump was sworn in, few major philanthropies — and none as well-known — have argued so publicly for a robust sector response to the administration’s cuts as the MacArthur Foundation. The Chicago-based grantmaker was one of the first institutions to announce a payout increase, raising its annual spend to “at least 6%” for the next two years.
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6 days ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | Michael Kavate
Ever since Bill Gates opened the doors of his foundation in 2000, he has been promising to close them. At first, he and then-wife and former co-chair Melinda French Gates pledged to do so within 50 years of their deaths. Over the years, that timeline has shrunk.
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2 weeks ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | Michael Kavate
Dimple Abichandani. Credit: General Service FoundationDonald Trump had just been elected, nonprofits were terrified of losing their funding, and a tsunami of regressive policies was on the way. Philanthropic leaders, meanwhile, had a familiar line: “We don’t know what’s going to happen, so it’s important to take a wait-and-see approach.”The year, in case you were wondering, was 2016.
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3 weeks ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | Michael Kavate
Kathy Reich. Credit: The Ford FoundationWhen Kathy Reich announced in early April that she was joining the Catena Foundation as its new executive director, it was not only a new chapter for the founding director of Ford Foundation’s Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD) initiative. Reich’s appointment also marks a new phase for the Carbondale, Colorado-based foundation — and for its founder, Sam Walton, a third-generation Walton heir.
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