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1 month ago | proximate.press | Anna Patton

When Amanda LaFleur, executive director of Massachusetts-based Nonprofit Organization for Philanthropic Initiatives (NOPI), came across Ribbon, a fintech company that promised to make running her organization more efficient, she says she felt “so excited and so relieved.”As a fiscal sponsor, NOPI hosts around 40 projects – informal charitable initiatives, grassroots organizations, and nonprofits with or working towards 501(c)3 status.

1 month ago | proximate.press | Ben Wrobel

May 2025May 2025Supported By : In Partnership With:This month, the Gates Foundation made headlines with a big announcement: the foundation will spend down its assets and close its doors by 2045. The news sent ripples across the philanthropy sector – and raised a number of questions. How will this work? What will the mechanics look like? Will this news reshape norms in philanthropy around perpetuity and legacy?

2 months ago | proximate.press | Joana Mortari |Patricia Silva

This article invites you into a space of reflection rather than prescription. We explore how philanthropy intersects with the social construction of the feminine—not to offer neat conclusions, but to hold complexity with care. For some readers, the questions we raise may feel abstract or uncomfortable. That’s intentional. In these tensions, we find the possibility of deeper transformation. Philanthropy is in a moment of questioning.

Mar 31, 2025 | proximate.press | Ben Wrobel

April 2025April 2025April 2025Supported By : In Partnership With:No inverno passado, o Fundo Socioambiental Casa realizou uma das suas maiores ações de seus vinte anos de história. Juntamente com a CAIXA, lançou a Teia da Sociobiodiversidade, injetando R$ 53 milhões (US$ 9,6 milhões) em organizações de base voltadas para a economia da Sociobiodiversidade e Soluções baseadas na Natureza.

Mar 25, 2025 | proximate.press | Ben Wrobel

In the basement of the Ford Foundation’s offices, there’s a framed print of an old New Yorker cartoon that I think about a lot. A man in a suit stands at the window of an office, tossing money into the street. Another man rushes in, saying, “Just a minute, young man. That’s not quite the way we do things here at the Ford Foundation.”Ford is such an interesting institution because it has spent decades thinking about the how of philanthropy.