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Flood risks are rising, yet communities may spend millions of dollars in federal infrastructure funding on systems that aren’t built to handle them.
As giving receded to pre-pandemic levels, most of these gifts were designated for foundations, higher education, hospitals and medical research.
Yvon Chouinard’s gift is unusual due to its structure but is also part of a trend. Many billionaires and large foundations are now funding these causes.
Of the big pledges so far at the UN climate conference, cutting methane could have the most immediate impact.
Rather than pump money into a broken system, people like Jeff Bezos and Charles Koch could use their money to help fix it – by insulating politics from money.
By not attaching any strings to the money, championing representation and generally taking care to respect nonprofit leaders, she’s following five best practices.
It’s too soon to say what will happen with philanthropy in 2020, but looking at 2019 may offer some clues.
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Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy, Grand Valley State University
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Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Director of Research, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and Managing Editor, Giving USA, Indiana University
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Research Fellow in the Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Research Affiliate, Yale Program on Climate Change Communications, Yale University
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Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Professor of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
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Research Fellow in International Development, Tufts University
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Research Fellow in Climate Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan