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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1 month ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | Michael Kavate
I had only just started in philanthropy when my then-boss turned me on to Vu Le’s blog, now called Nonprofit AF. I was fresh to the field but already feeling confused by it, not least by the gulf between the sector’s humanitarian ideals and its often lifeless, public-relations-manicured language. Le’s weekly posts were like encountering a living being in a robotic landscape, someone who cared so much that they did not worry if they made others uncomfortable.
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1 month ago |
insidephilanthropy.com | Michael Kavate
When Randall Kempner started researching climate philanthropy a few years ago, he was surprised to find that some of the sector’s key players had never met or worked together.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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