Grant Makers Urged to Stay Focused on Climate Change in Biden Administration

Plus, Hewlett commits $50 million to rethinking capitalism, and to ride the civic wave, nonprofits need to find new ways to engage supporters (opinion) ADVERTISEMENT [Advertisement]( [logo] Was this newsletter forwarded to you? [Please sign up to receive your own copy.]( You’ll support our journalism and ensure that you continue to receive our emails. [Read this newsletter on the web](. ENVIRONMENT [Grant Makers Urged to Stay Focused on Climate Change in Biden Administration]( By Alex Daniels [image] After four years playing defense, leaders fighting climate change have a friend in the White House. That’s no reason for foundations to dial back their efforts on the issue, advocates say. ADVERTISEMENT [Advertisement]( GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION [Hewlett Commits $50 Million to New Effort to Rethink How Capitalism Should Work]( The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation said today it will spend $50 million over the next five years to help generate a new way of thinking about capitalism and the economy. OPINION [To Ride the Growing Civic Wave, Nonprofits Need to Find New Ways to Engage Supporters]( By Natalye Paquin [image] The November election and the massive civic engagement that preceded it, demonstrate the importance of deploying every asset that volunteers and donors bring to a cause. DISPATCHES [When We Return to Our Foundation Offices, Let’s Make Them Spaces Where We Collaborate With Grantees]( By Lisa Pilar Cowan [image] Our offices should inspire brainstorming and conversation, filled with music and art that shows we want to work with nonprofits to devise new approaches, not impose them. Paid for and Created by Independent Sector [A new take on KPIs and goal setting]( Redefining success can help organizations demonstrate value and serve as goodwill ambassadors for their mission. Now is the time to look at goals in a new light, and focus on what is in your sphere of influence. Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Memphis's largest health-care system, the nonprofit Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, almost never gave discounts to poor people who struggled to pay their hospital bills. Of the 977,000-plus patients with bills at least 30 days past due, from whom the hospital has collected more than $169 million since 2014, it has offered discounts to only 1 percent. Le Bonheur also used to offer commissions to its bill collectors who took in more than $30,000 monthly for the hospital and even sued its own employees for nonpayment. Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee and has been looking into nonprofit health-care practices, said Le Bonheur's record violates the spirit of laws granting health-care institutions tax-exempt status in exchange for charity care. Grassley called for tighter regulation of nonprofit health-care companies. ([ProPublica and MLK50: Justice Through Journalism]( Elections officials in swing states say money from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative this year helped avoid an election-season debacle. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave $400 million to nonprofits, almost all to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, which then handed out grants to state and local officials. The money paid for extra people and equipment to deal with a crush of mail-in ballots and to speed up the counting process. 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