The Re-Emerging Art of Funding Innovation
A growing number of foundations are reintroducing risk-taking into their processes and portfolios as one way to create breakthrough change.
Philanthropy - Articles
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Programs Aren’t Everything
The evaluation of nonprofit outcomes shouldn't focus exclusively on programmatic activity. Here's a look at what it means to take frontline work seriously.
Growth Force
A few years ago, the Salesforce.com Foundation revamped its revenue model. Today, it's not just a grantmaker. It's a rapidly expanding software vendor.
Do Volunteers Make Better Employees?
People who perform volunteer work, far from being distracted by it, tend to perform better at their jobs.
Fatal Flaw
After a disaster, donors to relief funds pay more attention to the death toll than to the needs of survivors.
Three Lessons from 13 Years of Strategic Philanthropy
The complexity of social change is what makes strategic philanthropy valuable.
Advocacy Isn’t “Soft”
Evaluating efforts to promote shifts in policy requires methods that are at once rigorous and flexible.
Transforming Our Anti-Social Sector
Our sector’s trajectory does not point to a pivotal future role in solving social problems—what might a new paradigm look like, and could we ever get there?
Strategic Philanthropy and the Risk of Certainty
Strategic philanthropy has produced many great results, but we must not be too rigid in our adherence to certain practices.