Nonprofits Need Enterprise Capital to Succeed
Many nonprofits face a mismatch of their budget and their balance sheet. Funders can help build stronger financial foundations.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Due Diligence as a Catalyst for Growth
Why philanthropy should think of due diligence not as a vetting exercise, but as an opportunity to build deeper partnerships that lead to more sustainable impact.
Making Compliance Work for Philanthropy
Funders need to identify, embrace, and ultimately demystify compliance, reclaiming it as a tool that enables, rather than impedes, philanthropy’s essential purpose.
Scale Is a Myth! Embrace the Long Defeat!
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll
Returning Yulića: Lessons From Land Rematriation
How funders, sellers, and intermediaries can better support Indigenous “land back” initiatives.
Does Everything in the Social Sector Need to Scale?
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
What Else Can We Do? The Thirteen Intentions of Philanthropy
A year of turbulence has exposed the dangers of philanthropic monocultures and upended assumptions about impact, effectiveness, and scale. Embracing the varied intentions that motivate people to give offers a more resilient, pluralistic path forward.
Measuring More and Learning Less
How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning overall.
Meeting the Moments After This One
Philanthropy's role in Minneapolis must be to build for after the current crisis passes.