A Movement Without Letters
How funders can listen better, step back, and walk alongside grassroots leadership.
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
How funders can listen better, step back, and walk alongside grassroots leadership.
By actively moving into the roles of advocate and partner for grantees, grantmakers can cultivate trusting, transparent relationships that ultimately translate into social impact.
As grassroots and “grass-tops” groups come together to create collective impact, funders have the power to foster truly authentic engagement and co-ownership among all.
Relationships take work—and those between grantees and grantmakers are no exception.
Now, more than ever, grantmakers are asking questions and working to learn with and from their grantees, but the lessons matter only if they inform future action.
A 21st-century collaborative framework has the potential to deliver more effective and affordable therapies by aligning and engaging all sectors of society.
It’s time to recognize how inequity shapes funders’ choice of partners.
Including grantees in decision-making, program-building, and strategy is critical to effective social impact. While the things grantmakers “do” are important, authentic inclusion also requires that they embrace a new mindset.
There are conditions under which nonprofits, even those pursuing transformative scale, will find commitment strategies—rather than exit strategies—to be the right answer for their direct service programs.
For funders and founders thinking about launching a multi-stakeholder initiative for social impact, the question of "whether" is just as important as "how."