New and innovative ideas for leaders of foundations (more)
Optimizing the path from funder to fundee isn’t something philanthropy has thought about systematically, but the sector should take this moment to build some muscle into it, with an eye toward racial and economic justice.
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.
Building better relationships between funders and nonprofits, and investing in capacity, will mean more resilient organizations and more impact.
Insightful quotes and summaries of sessions from the “People, Power, Resources: Enacting an Equitable Future" conference.
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.
Far from constraining foundations, donor intent protects them from short-term thinking and liberates their creativity.
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.
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.
An excerpt from Philanthropy Revolution examines what it means if fundraisers privilege a different set of values in courting a new generation of donors.
While allies and advisors are important in our work, it’s more important to support and develop our own Indigenous power, leadership, and decision-making.
