In the name of equity, New York City diverts public arts funding from big prestige arts organizations, like the Met and Lincoln Center, to arts and culture nonprofits in underserved communities across the city: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/arts/design/deblasio-museums-cultural-plan-funding.html?_r=1&WT.mc_id=SmartBriefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl
Creme de la Creme
Town & Country’s “Top 50 Philanthropists”—not surprisingly, heavy on celebrity and leisure-class representation: http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/g9598806/top-50-philanthropists-of-2017/?elqTrackId=552a26a9173542ca8997ef489bd62c57&elq=e450e0060efa43d1b6c823b778a1dc35&elqaid=13846&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5770&thumbnails
A Journalistic Trend
Nonprofit, nonpartisan media is having its moment—a case study in an unlikely town: https://www.cjr.org/local_news/nonprofit-news-local-tulsa-frontier.php
Philanthropy and Coal
Foundations are turning their attention to a just transition from fossil fuels to a clean-energy economy that does not leave workers and communities behind: https://nonprofitchronicles.com/2017/05/09/philanthropy-coal-country-and-a-just-transition/#more-23736