Measuring Outcomes to Improve Social Services
Funders can support positive change by backing proven, replicable interventions and new measurement tools that help draw the connection between services offered and results achieved.
Philanthropy & Funding - Articles
New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
Eliminating Implicit Bias in Grantmaking Practice
Some of philanthropy’s core practices may unwittingly be leading funders to perpetuate the inequities they’re trying to eliminate.
Leadership Development: Aligning Funders’ Good Intentions with Nonprofits’ Real Needs
The time is right for funders to reconsider how they can make the most of the dollars they invest in grantee leadership development, but they must start by better understanding the leadership challenges nonprofits face.
Structuring Innovation in the Next Administration
Faced with a potentially dramatic shift in federal policy, how can policymakers, civic tech leaders, philanthropists, and social innovators reshape their approach to innovation, technology, and data so that the US government is more responsive and connected to the people?
Across the Returns Continuum
Omidyar Network has built a framework for pursuing investment opportunities that takes into account not only firm-level impact but also market-level impact.
Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier
At Root Capital, leaders are using ideas from mainstream financial analysis to calibrate the role that subsidies play in their investing practice. Includes magazine extras.
Seeking and Solving
Through an online crowdsourcing platform, one foundation is reaching new types of partners who offer new types of solutions.
Good to the Last Mile
Solving the problem of rural distribution in the developing world starts with following the time-honored model of local traders.
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Urban Crisis as Opportunity
Detroit has become a source of inspiration and solutions for other challenged American cities and even other municipalities looking for innovative new models of urban governance.
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Philanthropy as a Catalyst
Foundations aspiring to make a difference in challenged cities have much to offer beyond grantmaking—if they are willing to embrace new roles that may fall well outside their comfort zones.