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MSF USA is looking to recruit francophone Health Promotion & Community Engagement Managers for 6-12 week rotations for its Ebola response in DRC.

Bachelor or university degree in social sciences, social communication (creative), education, instructional design, health promotion, nursing, social marketing, or related studies. A combination of different degrees like arts (graphic design, photography, theatre) in combination with teaching is also possible.

Experience in outbreak response and viral hemorrhagic fevers is especially valuable.

Social science background desirable.

As you consider applying to undertake an MSF assignment, it is essential that you have a well-informed and realistic personal reflection. Assignments often mean long hours with a heavy workload, basic living conditions, and working and living in often chaotic and volatile environments.

Interested candidates should apply here: https://grnh.se/legw1d6i8us 

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are donating $26m to charities in advance of their rumored wedding at New York’s Madison Square Garden this weekend, a representative for the couple has confirmed to the Guardian.

The 20 named charities include organizations in meaningful locations to the couple such as Nashville (where Swift got her start in music), Kansas City (the home of Kelce’s Chiefs NFL team) and New York City, where Swift and Kelce’s wedding is reported to take place.

While the announcement doesn’t explicitly mention the wedding, the donations fit in with a practice that Swift has become known for; at the close of the Eras Tour, she gave six-figure bonuses and hand-written letters to her crew.

The release stated: “This week, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift donated $26 million to charities across the United States. They include the following: City Harvest, New York City; Food Bank For NYC; New York Cares; Los Angeles Regional Food Bank; Harvesters – The Community Food Network, Kansas City, MO.”

The list of causes also includes: “The Store, Nashville, TN; Helping Harvest, Reading, PA; Rhode Island Community Food Bank; Feeding America; ASPCA; Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library; Grammy In The Schools; Education Through Music, New York, NY; Answer The Call, New York, NY and Musical Mentors, New York, NY.”

More info from The Guardian.

Disabled man feels shut out of accessible seating as venues fail to stop abuse.

A Langley, British Columbia man who often relies on a wheelchair says he can rarely attend hockey games or concerts at Rogers Arena because seats are often taken by people who might not need them.

The accessible sections at Rogers Arena, for instance, might be considered prime seating areas. They're designed for people to manoeuvre wheelchairs and other mobility devices, so there's plenty of legroom, only one row of seating so no one is squeezing by to get to their seat, and chairs that can be pulled up for attendants or family and friends of those with disabilities. There's often a ledge that provides a convenient spot for food and drinks.

Major venues across the country sell these designated accessible seats on the honour system — people simply have to tick a box saying they need the seats, and there's no proof required. 

Those who abuse the system are leaving people who actually need the seats shut out.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/accessible-seating-abuse-9.7057214

Funding Opportunity for Nonprofits headquartered or primarily operating in eligible areas of New York, New Jersey, or Utah.

The Goldman Sachs Community Development Grants Program is designed to support nonprofit organizations that are creating economic opportunity and mobility in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities.

Funding priorities include:
🏠 Affordable Housing
📚 Community Services & Education
💼 Small Business Development
🏘️ Neighborhood Revitalization

Eligible organizations must:
✅ Be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
✅ Focus on community development in low- and moderate-income communities
✅ Be headquartered or primarily operating in eligible areas of New York, New Jersey, or Utah.

The current application cycle closes on July 24, 2026, at 11:59 PM EST, with award decisions expected in Q4 2026.

Programs like this help strengthen communities by investing in organizations that are addressing some of our most pressing challenges—from housing stability to economic mobility.

If your organization or someone in your network is doing impactful work in these areas, this may be an opportunity worth exploring.

Apply here.

Keywords: philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, CSR, funding, money

The US supreme court has upheld laws in two conservative states excluding transgender girls and women from competing in female sports in a far-reaching ruling likely to pave the way for similar bans throughout the US and handing Donald Trump a key “culture war” victory.

The court voted to overturn previous judgements issued by lower courts in favor of two trans students who had sued after being barred from competing in West Virginia and Idaho respectively.

The court – which is split 6-3 in a conservative-liberal majority – ruled that banning transgender women and girls from competing in sports does not violate Title IX, a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination in education.

The three liberal justices dissented from some parts of the judgement, but concurred with other parts.

The impact is likely to have a wider resonance because Idaho and West Virginia’s prohibitions against transgender athletes are already replicated in at least 25 other states. It seems likely that Tuesday’s ruling will be interpreted as a green light by these states, although its impact on ongoing lawsuits challenging state laws in California, Connecticut and other states is unclear.

More from the Guardian.

More from the Mississippi Free Press.

MacKenzie Scott’s $26 billion giving sprint in seven years, including a record $7.2 billion last year, makes her the third-biggest philanthropist of all-time. She gave more in 2025 than Musk, Page, Ellison and her ex-husband Bezos have in their lifetimes combined.

In all, 186 organizations received a collective $7.2 billion in 2025 from Scott—enough to make her the world’s most generous philanthropist last year. It’s also the most donated in a single year since Forbes started tracking top givers in 2012.

No one has ever given away more money as fast as Scott. In less than seven years, Scott, who has disposed of more than 75% of the Amazon shares she received from Bezos, has donated $26.4 billion to more than 2,500 groups. Only Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, have donated more—but in both cases over a much longer time. Scott is also one of just four of the nation’s top 25 philanthropists who have given away 40% or more of their fortunes.

Four Over 40%

These are America’s four most generous billionaire philanthropists as measured by the percentage of their fortune that they have doled out to unaffiliated nonprofits.

George Soros

Lynn and Stacy Schusterman

MacKenzie Scott

John and Laura Arnold

Full article from Forbes.

A nationwide network of charitable foundations is encouraging its members to emphasize their positive contributions to American life, a 250th anniversary campaign aimed at quelling what it calls the “greater intensity” of scrutiny felt from the federal government and populist movements.

Popular notions of philanthropy as merely a game for the ultrawealthy to fund partisan projects and commit fraud have left the sector vulnerable to political attacks, as the Council on Foundations sees it, influencing policies that hamper essential community services. The advocacy group, which represents about 1,000 nonprofits, hopes to overcome what CEO Kathleen Enright calls the sector’s “perception gap” with its “Generosity Builds” campaign, launched Monday.

Enright believes most Americans don’t recognize their reliance on the charitable sector. Just about 1 in 20 adults said they or anyone in their immediate family received nonprofit services in the past year, according to a 2023 Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy report.

“This week, I got an MRI at Georgetown University Hospital, I participated in my church at St. Columba’s, my daughter was inducted into National Junior Honor Society. Four or five nonprofits have been instrumental in my life this week,” she said. “Folks just aren’t putting that tag on it.”

Full story here from the Associated Press.

Opened in 1916, Cobbs Creek in West Philadelphia welcomed golfers of all backgrounds. Women could play at Cobbs Creek before they were eligible to vote. And, while very few golf courses were open to Blacks, there was no segregation at the course.

Hall of Famer Charlie Sifford took advantage of the course’s open-door policy. He claimed it as his home and honed his skills there on the way to breaking golf’s color barrier in 1961 as the first Black member of the PGA and among its first Black winners. Sifford’s success and connection to the course helped spark a groundswell of support for the Cobbs Creek Foundation and its effort to restore the long-neglected 350-acre parcel that also touches Delaware and Montgomery counties. The effort got a significant boost with backing from Tiger Woods.

Woods credits Sifford for helping pave the way for his success and referred to him as “the grandfather I never had.” He even named his son, Charlie, after Sifford.

Woods says the renovation is as much about education and giving back to the community as golf.

The grand plan is to restore the course to the original design by Hugh Wilson, the golf course architect responsible for crafting nearby Merion. 

https://apnews.com/article/cobbs-creek-tiger-woods-golf-86e57ef0a1c197e7778cd59bfc8aa672

Keywords: diversity, equity, inclusion, fairness, inclusive

We need to have much more serious conversations about AI and the nonprofit/philanthropic sector - commentary from Vu Le, Nonprofit AF.

It goes through all the various concerns: about water usage and other environmental concerns, about how data centers are put into marginalized communities, about the massive tax breaks given to data centers (thereby defunding schools, roads and more), about how AI is so white-people-driven and focused, how it's such a "yes, you're right!" tool, and more.

Never has something been so seductive and yet so destructive to our world in so many different ways, many of which we do not yet fully see and may not understand until it's too late. Let's not unwittingly enshittify our sector and community, prop up fascism and billionaires, and perpetuate the inequities and injustice our sector claims it exists to fight.

This was published in May 2026.

Comments on this welcomed here, but please share your comments also on Vu Le's blog.

Anthropic is investing $150 million to launch Claude Corps, a national fellowship program that will place young people in full-time jobs at various nonprofits around the country that want to use artificial intelligence more effectively in their work.

Named for the company’s popular AI chatbot, Claude Corps will teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude well. Then, over the course of the next year or so, it will match them with as many as 400 nonprofits across America and pay them $85,000 to spend one year—full-time, in-person—to help those organizations use AI tools to improve their operations and advance their missions.

Anyone over 18 years of age who has less than two years of full-time work experience may apply, regardless of their educational background. 

I have a LOT of thoughts about this. All of them really bad. But Brett Egan of the DeVos Institute of Arts and Nonprofit Management says it better than I can - this is from his LinkedIn Page:

I’m sorry, Claude Corps.

Nonprofits need great AI. But slotting recent high school grads with Claude credits into nonprofits isn’t how to do it.

Nonprofit organizations are sophisticated. AI use in nonprofits is sensitive and must be strategic.

Senior nonprofit administrators are meant to trust serious issues of values, governance and sector and discipline-specific strategy to early career fellows with fewer than two years’ work experience?

(This is Claude Corps’ maximum experience threshold for eligibility — 2 years in the workforce, but no work experience is required).

The implicit assumption - that nonprofits will benefit from inexperienced kids + Claude - is right in line with the erroneous, dismissive, often paternalistic way in which much of the corporate sector has viewed nonprofit governance for decades.

Anthropic is well meaning no doubt. And so too will be the fellows. And directing some of the AI dividend to nonprofits is great. And thank heavens Dario Amodei is speaking out on the dangers of AI.

But unless there is a lot more prep and structure than has been communicated thus far, this not this way to help nonprofits.

In fact there is an equal chance this will cause more harm than good.

We are not a “move fast and break things” experiment. We are a “move smart and make beautiful things” profession.

Ethical, strategic, mature, effective AI is the only solution for nonprofits can afford. And that is what they deserve.

Your thoughts about this philanthropic effort by Anthropic?