In This Issue

Reports and Resources
Tools for Philanthropists
CSP and Partners in the News

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Reports and Resources

• Moonshots for Youth Mental Health: A cycle of constant stress, stigma, and systemic barriers to accessing quality care have brought America’s collective mental health to a breaking point. This report from CSP outlines big ideas to decrease stigma, increase access to care, build a diverse mental health workforce, and develop measurements and interventions that are grounded in inclusive research. 

• The Philanthropist’s Dilemma: CSP offers a thoughtful look into the ways that philanthropy can have unintended consequences. This issue brief lays out a proposal for building on the lessons COVID-19 taught us and using those lessons to create new and better strategies for philanthropic giving.

• The Type 1 Diabetes Autoantibody Screening Roadmap, released earlier this year, is now open for comment. Feedback from the T1D community, including those who have been working to screen for, diagnose, and treat T1D, can be shared in the form of comments through this link. The comment period is open until September 23, 2021.

Tools for Philanthropists

• CSP’s Philanthropy Field Guide continues to be updated with fresh content to guide donors through their philanthropic journey. Check out our most recent articles on the value of prize philanthropy, philanthropy in a family office, and ensuring equity in philanthropy.

• CSP has a new offering to add to our suite of services: a team dedicated to designing and building philanthropic prizes. Learn more about why prizes are important—and contact us to explore whether a prize program might be an option for your philanthropic program.

In Focus: CSP and Our Partners in the News

• Inside Philanthropy featured an article about Jan Ellison Baszucki and David Baszucki’s newly announced funding program for research into bipolar disorder.

• CSP’s Glorimar Barrios’ Giving Compass article offered a vision of a mental health care system that works better for young people and offered ideas for how philanthropy can help.

• Milken Institute President and Chief Operating Officer Rich Ditizio penned a CNN.com guest essay about the need for CEOs to step up and recognize the realities of life for LGBTQ people.

• Was 2020 philanthropy a watershed or an anomaly? CSP Executive Director Melissa Stevens and Associate Director Hilary McConnaughey analyze the data in this Giving Compass article.

“The philanthropic response was on a scale we’ve never seen. There was $25.5 billion in grants and pledges for Covid globally since the pandemic started—19 billion from the US. [In comparison, Hurricane Harvey’s devastation brought in $400 million.] What Covid has really taught us—there’s so much work to do in the world. And it’s not a health problem. It’s an equity problem.”

—Melissa Stevens, Executive Director, Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy, speaking to Politico’s Joanne Kenen