Entering Climate Change Communications Through the Side Door
Advocates can make progress on polarized issues by finding new ways into engaging people in different perspectives, rather than trying to knock down the front door with a barrage of facts.
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Five Ways Funders Can Support Social Movements
Foundations and other donors often want to support large-scale protests that shift public opinion around social issues. Here’s how they can back up movements during important moments in their development.
Is Anybody Listening?
A new model for advocacy groups and organizations can help them identify and effectively communicate with persuadable audiences.
Six Proven Practices for Backbone Organizations
Collaborations among multiple organizations are simple in theory, but difficult in practice. Making them work requires a backbone organization that pays close attention to the needs of all participants.
Protest Movements Need the Funding They Deserve
Mass protest mobilizations play a critical role in creating the necessary conditions for cultural and political change. When grantmakers and major donors fail to appreciate how they work, they are missing a huge opportunity.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.