The senior editor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about staff turnover and accusations of mismanagement in the San Francisco DA’s office, including in grants administration, and more broadly, the underappreciated role of philanthropy in local government, in terms of both the size of its funding and its influence.
The senior editor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the nonprofit news site, the visions and aims of the MacArthur and Crankstart Foundations’ criminal- and restorative-justice grantmaking in San Francisco, and the backlash in the city and state against aggressive criminal-justice reforms that began in the 2010s.
A disagreement about how to spend grant money offers poignant lessons on the perils of investing in public institutions.
In this case, to the MacArthur Foundation’s failed, and democratically rejected, vision of criminal-justice reform.
