Wrote my first blog post in a long time, as I start to unpack my time at Knight Foundation. Thinking about where arts+tech could go, and the funding models might get us there. This one is about the (relative) futility of funding "innovation" in the arts. https://kovenjsmith.com/post/2025-10-17-innovation-funds/ #musetech #arts #artstech #glam #philanthropy

Wrote my first blog post in a long time, as I start to unpack my time at Knight Foundation. Thinking about where arts+tech could go, and the funding models might get us there. This one is about the (relative) futility of funding "innovation" in the arts. https://kovenjsmith.com/post/2025-10-17-innovation-funds/ #musetech #arts #artstech #glam #philanthropy

Decline of privately-funded science journalism in the age of Trump.
https://undark.org/2025/10/15/science-journalism-funders-trump/

"Science journalism has been fragile for many years now: Outlets like National Geographic and Wired have undergone layoffs. Others, like Sapiens, have shuttered. The environmental publication Hakai Magazine shut down last year when its funder, the Tula Foundation, withdrew its support to focus on research efforts, for example (the magazine has since joined forces with bioGraphic). A few years earlier, the U.K.’s Wellcome Trust pulled the plug on its long-form digital science magazine Mosaic."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Journalism #Philanthropy #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Decline of privately-funded science journalism in the age of Trump.
https://undark.org/2025/10/15/science-journalism-funders-trump/

"Science journalism has been fragile for many years now: Outlets like National Geographic and Wired have undergone layoffs. Others, like Sapiens, have shuttered. The environmental publication Hakai Magazine shut down last year when its funder, the Tula Foundation, withdrew its support to focus on research efforts, for example (the magazine has since joined forces with bioGraphic). A few years earlier, the U.K.’s Wellcome Trust pulled the plug on its long-form digital science magazine Mosaic."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Journalism #Philanthropy #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"... looking at the roots of our wealth broadly, globally, and looking at the ways that we relate, especially in the field of global aid ... who's making decisions in that space and what are they for? We can think about philanthro-capitalism ... leveraging philanthropy to perpetuate a lot of the harm in our society."

#JohnOkhiulu, Decolonizing Wealth Project

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/season-one/decolonizing-wealth-project

@solarpunkpresents

#podcasts #SolarpunkPresents #SolarPunk #decolonisation #philanthropy #DecolonizingWealth

The #AI #drug pushing has come to #civilsociety - here comes the #philanthropy to sell #nonprofits on their products and ensure their companies gather data on the most vulnerable people

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-economic-inequality-gates-foundation-stand-together-5c84fa707ba8275a7afb2bc5245c286d

Can #reporters PLEASE ask better questions about these #TechForGood scams....

The #AI #drug pushing has come to #civilsociety - here comes the #philanthropy to sell #nonprofits on their products and ensure their companies gather data on the most vulnerable people

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-economic-inequality-gates-foundation-stand-together-5c84fa707ba8275a7afb2bc5245c286d

Can #reporters PLEASE ask better questions about these #TechForGood scams....

Got ideas? https://philanthropy2173.ghost.io/news/

#philanthropy #nonprofits #digitalcivilsociety