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Unrestricted grants produce powerful impacts, but we won’t see more of them until we address the hidden barriers.

Building a more equitable, effective, and efficient social sector will require understanding and addressing these risks.

Comprehensive reparations are fundamental to realizing our highest democratic ideals.

After myriad funder press releases and pledges, both racial equity and racial justice grantmaking dropped significantly between 2018 and 2021.

Because trust-based philanthropy shouldn’t mean blind faith.

Rest and joy are essential to not only leaders but their teams, their organizations, and the communities they serve.

Foundations can turn the decision to spend down into a long-lasting and impactful legacy.

The core practices that define a trust-based approach can, through multiple pathways, lead to both increased resource efficiency and outsized impact.

Diverse teams get better results, but it takes skill and thoughtfulness to make the most of diverse experience at a board table.

Understanding the historical roots of many foundation endowments is a critical step in considering the question of philanthropic reparations.

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