Scaling
Building Scale Before the Curve
The humble foundation for scaling is often the unimpressive numbers that measure the beginnings of true normative change.
Human Rights
The Trouble With ‘Closing the Racial Wealth Gap’
If we are to go beyond performative gestures, we need to first reckon with the true scale of what must be done.
Podcast
Collaboration
What Makes Collaborative Philanthropy Different?
Listen to an in-depth conversation about collaborative funds and how they flip the power dynamics and decision-making models of many traditional philanthropic institutions.
Environment
Reforming Data Centers and AI for People and Planet
The backlash we are witnessing reflects both a public frustration with how data centers are being built and growing distrust of what the data center build-out is powering. It is a two-tiered problem that must be tackled in tandem.
Environment
Climate Resilience Will Not Be Built by Press Release
Ahead of COP31, the test for climate finance is no longer what gets announced; it is whether money reaches the systems that protect people.
Technology
Building Community Governance for AI
How cooperatives and collectives can build the AI sector toward justice, equity, and shared prosperity
Measurement & Evaluation
Listening Is Not
the ‘Soft’ Option
To make measurement meaningful and real, social change organizations must cultivate a listening orientation to go beyond "objective" measurements of impact.
Technology
A Historical Model for AI Regulation and Collaboration
What the Human Genome Project can teach us about channeling a revolutionary technology for public benefit—and why nuclear weapons are a counter-productive analogy.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Funding When Democracy Is in Decline
As the United States joins the ranks of countries with contracting civic space, some lessons from funders with experience working amidst uncertainty.
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Governing Our Data on Our Own Terms
How one urban Indigenous organization is working to transform data governance using a model that’s founded on Indigenous values
Podcast
Economic Development
Taking the Long View on Community Economic Development
Revitalizing communities that have been hit hard by post-industrial decline can take decades, but government and philanthropy often operate on short-term funding timelines. In this episode, Barbara Wheeler-Bride talks with Bo Kemp, CEO of the Southland Development Authority, about this mismatch, and how his nonprofit is working with individuals, businesses, and municipalities in Chicago's south suburbs to reinvigorate the economy. Their innovative strategies, including owning assets like housing and property, could provide a template for other struggling regions across the United States. Giving With Impact is developed with the support of DAFgiving360®
Nonprofits & NGOs
The New Nonprofit Visibility Gap
AI is narrowing the pathways available to donors for finding nonprofits worthy of support. Nonprofits and the social sector must act to ensure that donors can make fully informed decisions.
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Creating Climate Policy That Works Requires Community Data
Portland residents explained what makes a building livable in a heat wave. Their responses became the basis for statewide climate policy.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Why Don’t Philanthropists Build Anymore?
The United States is living through a second Gilded Age. But unlike yesterday's magnates, today's billionaires prefer to write checks to existing organizations. They should instead build institutions that last.
Scaling
Scale Right, Not Cheap and Easy
Social innovation means building a road to the future that doesn't yet exist, without lowering standards.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Who Will Raise the Money When the Money Raisers Are Gone?
To solve the talent crisis, we must move from transactionalism to transformation.
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The Gyms on the Corners
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.
Business
Freedom of Choice
A lens for understanding business leaders' ability to act in alignment with their values.