Michael Kavate

Senior Reporter @InsidePhilanthr. Cover climate + environment + billionaires. BCN resident. Long-time Californian. Not active on X, but check DMs, etc. He/him.

[The Giving Review @GivingReview]

“Foundation assets could soon reach double the value of the combined endowments of the top 700 richest U.S. universities,” @InsidePhilanthr’s @michaelkavate reports, on basis of new @FoundationMark data … https://t.co/aaDcaw6UsC

[The Giving Review @GivingReview]

@GivingReview co-editor @mhartmannmke compares higher-ed and foundation endowments with at least $10 billion in assets under management, https://t.co/2PxmdfyQnh, relying on numbers from @FoundationMark, @NACUBO, and @JDVance1’s office and reporting from @InsidePhilanthr’s @michaelkavate …

[Don S. Doering @DonSDoering]

I just published The common causes behind the Top 10 Challenges of Small Foundations - thank you @exponentphil https://t.co/G0zZNOXjeg #philanthropy #fundraising #nonprofits

[Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot]

Credit where credit is due!

This heatwave is only possible thanks to carbon pollution, and no one is producing more of it in the US than ExxonMobil. #Sponsored #Ad

[Don S. Doering @DonSDoering]

This @InsidePhilanthropy series by @michaelkavate will be interesting to follow. Staff at big funders often can't afford to make small grants. Regrantors also add field expertise through their Advisory Councils and Boards and are an important buffer between strategic change in foundations and the field.

[Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) 🌻 @CJAOurPower]

...Foundations gave CJA just under $8million in 2022. Compare that, for example, to the @EnvDefenseFund, which received $40.8million from institutional philanthropy that same year. We’ll see if that disparity persists."
- @MichaelKavate, @InsidePhilanthr

https://t.co/DCkZDVNf6J

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by an ermine?

[Riff City Strategies @riffcitystrat]

“We need to make sure that foundations understand that, yes, it’s great that you’re diversifying, but you also need to make sure that you’re diversifying at all levels,” - @andresforchange at @DiverseGreen via @InsidePhilanthr by @michaelkavate
https://t.co/IoWjCMPvkv

[NewAmericansCampaign @newamericans]

ICYMI an excellent @InsidePhilanthr piece about the @NewAmericanEcon and @immcouncil merger by @michaelkavate: "In this case, the decision to combine forces was sparked by the potential for greater impact, as well as the organizations’ similarities and complementary programs."

[Michael Kavate @michaelkavate]

Telling. https://t.co/Eb7HiU1cYQ

[Michael Kavate @michaelkavate]

All those billionaires (ie @BezosEarthFund & co) who are pledging millions (and sometimes more) to climate? They're starting to show up in the numbers from @ClimateWorks. https://t.co/k1dlKLpHKd

[Ballmer Group @BallmerGroup]

Thanks to @InsidePhilanthr and @michaelkavate for showcasing our newest grantees in climate.

[Michael Kavate @michaelkavate]

New climate funder alert: Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, and his wife, Connie, made their first-ever climate grants this week. Could billions be on the way?
https://t.co/QpXrazYd5r

[Mosaic @Mosaic_Momentum]

What issues and interests are driving funding for conservation, agriculture and reducing pollution? We love to see collaboration listed in the 10 themes that are on the minds of green funders, based on reporting from @MichaelKavate: https://t.co/aRargVCURQ

[David Gelles @dgelles]

🌎🔥 Today I asked World Bank president @DavidMalpassWBG if he believed in the scientific consensus that the man made burning of fossil fuels is rapidly and dangerously warming the planet.

“I’m not a scientist,” he said.

Here’s a thread about the remarkable exchange. 🧵 1/

[Michael Kavate @michaelkavate]

I found it super fascinating to track down the foundations started by the late hedge fund billionaire Julian Robertson's "Tiger Cubs" and his lasting influence on Wall Street philanthropy. https://t.co/e0i0e2VvWt

[Ben Ehrenreich @BenEhrenreich]

Sad news. Barbara Ehrenreich, my one and only mother, died on September 1, a few days after her 81st birthday. She was, she made clear, ready to go. She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

Good @sammy_roth interview with Jared Blumenfeld, the head of Laurene Powell Jobs's new climate philanthropy.

https://t.co/WO9NCiNR7m

[Center for Effective Philanthropy @CEPData]

READING | Eight Questions for Jonathan Pershing, Climate Diplomat and Hewlett Program Director

@michaelkavate interviews climate diplomat Jonathan Pershing for @InsidePhilanthr:

https://t.co/r4Me2jAR2R

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Hard to comprehend the scale of the flood disaster in Pakistan, the 5th most populated nation in the world.

Nearly 1400 dead, 1 million houses damaged or destroyed, and 50,000,000 people displaced.

1/3 of the country is underwater.