thegivingreview.com/the-ford… As the @FordFoundation’s new grantmaking strategy shifts its central focus to democracy, @GivingReview co-editor @mhartmannmke considers what the change might mean—and what the foundation isn't saying about why it made it … “A more-interesting and -helpful insight on the shift’s explanation might be to leave what remains to be seen to the future and wonder about what just plain isn’t seen as of this ‘moment,’ but must have occurred in Ford’s consideration and preparation of it.” After all, Ford says its new strategy was informed by extensive internal deliberations, outside reviews, and critical perspectives. “What did these private conversations, reviews, and critical perspectives conclude was ‘wrong,’ or maybe even just wrong-headed, about the old strategy, in the previous ‘moment’? What has Ford learned from it?” And as Ford promises broader coalitions and greater openness to disagreement, another question arises: “Just how pluralist the new, humbler, more democracy-protecting Ford’s promised democratic pluralism will actually be” does remain to be seen.

thegivingreview.com/in-the-a… @GivingReview co-editor @WilliamSchambra sees opportunity for nonprofit sector after midterms to confront waste, fraud, and abuse … “If such self-examination has been postponed because it might seem to give aid and comfort to the enemy,” he writes, “that excuse will have been removed.”