How much should business leaders speak out about threats to democracy? It’s a question many corporations are wrestling with these days. Business and democracy leader Daniella Ballou-Aares shows why companies have both the ability and the responsibility to engage in protecting elections and the rule of law — and why their bottom lines may depend on doing so.
Among the 40 monuments, memorials, statues and historic sites on the Mall — including 22 dedicated to individual men, 10 to military history and veterans, three to foreign relations, two to private organizations, one to U.S. postal history, one to the history of the United States’ canals, and another to the history of horses on the Mall — there is not a single one dedicated to American women.
To navigate through this challenging environment, philanthropy must have a strong spine and maintain a long-term view. Even more importantly, our sector needs to return to and embrace the original etymology of philanthropy—a “love of humankind”—as our animating force. That would be a radical counter-cultural act in our polarized, politically militarized country. But it would follow guidance inspired by author, academic, and activist bell hooks’ ethos on love.
Lucy Aharish is one of the most prominent television broadcasters in Israel—and the very first Arab Muslim news presenter on mainstream Hebrew-language Israeli television. Born and raised in a small Jewish town in Israel’s Negev desert, as one of the only Arab Muslim families, she has a unique lens through which to view the divisions in Israeli society, the complexity of the country’s national identity, and the Middle East more generally.
In government and as an outsider, Kenneth Marcus has tried to douse what he says is rising bias against Jews. Some see a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech.
Venture capital funding in the U.S. for companies founded by women has been trending up in recent years. According to research by Venture Capital Journal, women-led funds’ share of total fundraising increased to about 3% of the $107 billion raised last year by venture funds worldwide.
Baby Boomers have built a historically unmatched amount of wealth. They were the beneficiaries of a booming economy, robust markets, and price appreciation of their homes for most of their lives. As they die, that wealth gets passed on. Primarily to women. And more specifically, first to Boomer wives, who tend to live longer than their husbands. And after that, to their children: Gen X and Gen Z will receive some, but the much larger Millennial generation — with a record number of single women — may end up with most of it.
Inspire Access, the nonprofit dedicated to narrowing the gender and racial investment gap, today announced the launch of a new platform that leverages philanthropic capital to fund companies led by women and people of color.
Peter Buffet shares his experiences in the philanthropic industry and discusses his opinion on what actions need to be set in motion to see systemic change.
