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Trust-Based Philanthropy and Strategic Giving

Featuring Philip Li, Nadia Roumani, Julia Reed & Michael Voss

Trust-based philanthropy is becoming an increasingly well-defined approach for addressing the power imbalance in the nonprofit sector and closing the gap between funders and grantees. How does a trust-based approach to giving compare to a strategic one? To help us explore the characteristics of both, SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks with Julia Reed of Schwab Charitable, Philip Li of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and Nadia Roumani, cofounder of the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at PACS. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.

How to Overhaul Grantmaking in India

By Pritha Venkatachalam, Donald Yeh & Shashank Rastogi

Building better relationships between funders and nonprofits, and investing in capacity, will mean more resilient organizations and more impact.

Recap of SSIR’s 2021 Frontiers of Social Innovation Conference

By SSIR Editors

Insightful quotes and summaries of sessions from the “People, Power, Resources: Enacting an Equitable Future" conference.

How to Raise $200 Million in Two Months to Battle a Global Crisis

By Elizabeth Cousens

Four principles were key to the success of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, a joint effort of the UN Foundation and the World Health Organization to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to help nations around the world survive the pandemic.

Donor Intent Is Critical to Strategic Philanthropy

By Andrew Serazin

Far from constraining foundations, donor intent protects them from short-term thinking and liberates their creativity.

Lessons on Effective Collaboration From the California Health Workforce Project

By Karin Bloomer, Kathryn Phillips & Earl Lui

The experience of the California Future Health Workforce Commission to improve the state's supply of health professionals revealed the importance of upfront planning, clear partnering agreements, and graceful ways to pause when things don’t go as planned with highly collaborative efforts to solve complex social problems.

Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation

By Kristin M. Lord & Katya Vogt

If the world is going to stop deliberate or unintentional misinformation and its insidious effects, we need to radically expand and accelerate our counterattacks, particularly human-centered solutions focused on improving people's media and information literacy.

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