Philanthropy’s Missing Trillions, Revisited
The Baby Boomers' wealth transfer is one of the greatest opportunities in the history of the philanthropy and nonprofit sector. There is still work to do.
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Nonprofit Mergers Need More Than Mission Alignment
What two mergers taught us about the necessary conditions and hard truths that come after "yes."
If You Want to Teach Social Innovation, Teach Power
Lessons from Wesleyan on entrepreneurial education
Resourcing Appalachian Resilience After Helene
Appalachia's trust-based recovery from climate disaster offers a vision of the future and a road map to follow, for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure is exposed to climate volatility.
Beyond Unicorns
How impact investing should redefine success
Scale Doesn’t Belong (Only) to Government
Choosing the right path to scale depends on the nature of the problem we're trying to solve.
Donor Retention Requires Transformation
To solve the nonprofit sector's donor retention crisis, we need to look past tactics and superficial reform: We need to transform philanthropy to make philanthropy truly transformative.
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Reform as Process, Not Project
An excerpt from Reform as Process on reforming government bureaucracy
AI Industry Philanthropy and the Future of Nonprofit Independence
AI companies are offering nonprofits free services and staff. Is the deal too good to be true?
Capacity Building Needs an Evidence Standard
Funders should measure capacity building by what changes, not just what grantees like.