You know the old saw about banks only lending money to folks who don’t really need it?  Sometimes funders contribute to nonprofits that don’t really need it, too:  https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/11/13/these-two-1-million-grants-are-a-waste-of-money/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9MAm2P5hcGVysV_Tz9ybKp1ru0-QxDquYFzMqaBfXvoDDJ2nzUxs_-8RROWgups4uENSDIIvUdsam_pYC3NnE72qVPl9vkGJdThnSi_HhL0a1nmdY&_hsmi=23721973

What has transformed so many nonprofits into government contractors & how has it created negative consequences? http://ssir.org/articles/entry/government_contractors_as_civil_society?utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SSIR_Now&utm_content=Title

The history of philanthropy in America tells us that nothing is new under the sun: http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=86ea69664802a0541ae4385f8&id=deebb79e36&e=c43990c969

The gender of a family’s firstborn child impacts its philanthropic practices:  https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/11/11/gender-of-firstborn-child-affects-family-giving/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8g_2igukv8G6jDHSALjpB-vUtDgA2RZSmd3oYBsrvxI8AkK5jy2pcELG1iBD3nEmLY_XW3Kd10oFypqeyM0PfgHGlDlXaltM7kZhvllu2veVIs5zQ&_hsmi=23639076

The US is number two in the world on the percentage of people practicing philanthropic giving—after Burma!  http://time.com/4106092/us-philanthropy-2014/

The environmental community continues to fail in the diversity department—despite the fact that “many of the nation’s worst pollution problems, including climate change, disproportionally hit communities of color and low-income neighborhoods:” ...

The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to California’s law requiring nonprofits to disclose their donors—my Nonprofit Quarterly newswire today: ...

Ford Foundation focuses on grantees promoting systemic change and social justice: https://philanthropy.com/article/Ford-Foundation-Spells-Out/234111?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en&elq=2991c0e7ef3f40d79ba6daa15704acbf&elqCampaignId=1790&elqaid=6821&elqat=1&elqTrackId=26eb4710285f487dbfab47b3b208cb6b

Some Pennsylvania charities are getting bridge loans to weather the state budget impasse holding up their grants and contracts: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/11/09/pa-budget-standoff-trauma-for-nonprofits-and-attempts-to-stop-the-bleeding/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-85uep0T9sm7tRzF3s70UxIw7CSK1woTrhV519MeUsukF1k6SpF6LhisNSJyD7V4TIsCM4FdsEiAhuvCE-BoCXKEXaKPNgkO_V_kz6QAzriv5CIqV4&_hsmi=23559404

The New York Times ran a special section in yesterday’s paper called “Giving”—all about philanthropy:  http://www.nytimes.com/pages/giving/index.html?action=click&contentCollection=Giving&module=Kicker®ion=Header&pgtype=article

How family foundations can fund change, the importance of funders building nonprofits’ capacity for systemic change, how that worked in the battle against AIDS, how nonprofits can legally weigh in on the immigration debate, and free technical assistance in LA next week (links in that order): http://bolderadvocacy.org/blog/social-justice-philanthropy-is-not-a-political-third-rail...

The new Republican chair of the House Ways & Means Committee is considered nonprofit-friendly: https://philanthropy.com/article/New-Head-of-Key-Congressional/234076?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en&elq=de79fd9a6a994a9180dcf18d78a8328f&elqCampaignId=1767&elqaid=6788&elqat=1&elqTrackId=b3867c56500f4dd9877423017ff0d35f