Eliminating Implicit Bias in Grantmaking Practice
Some of philanthropy’s core practices may unwittingly be leading funders to perpetuate the inequities they’re trying to eliminate.
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Leadership Development: Aligning Funders’ Good Intentions with Nonprofits’ Real Needs
The time is right for funders to reconsider how they can make the most of the dollars they invest in grantee leadership development, but they must start by better understanding the leadership challenges nonprofits face.
Advocating and Giving During the Trump Administration: Five History Lessons for the Social Sector
As funders, providers, and advocates pivot to face a dramatically different funding and political environment, some lessons from history may be instructive.
Seeking and Solving
Through an online crowdsourcing platform, one foundation is reaching new types of partners who offer new types of solutions.
Bridging the Divide Between Nonprofits and Philanthropy in Silicon Valley
Why are Silicon Valley’s new philanthropists and community-based organizations struggling to connect?
How Philanthropy Can Help Bridge America’s Political Divide
The imperative to invest in risky collaboration has never been greater.
Public Organizations, Private Meetings
Given that all charities and charitable foundations exist to serve the public good, why do so few hold their meetings in public?
Investing in Global Refugee and Migrant Integration
George Soros’s $500 million investment announcement following the first-ever UN summit on migrants and refugees sets an example for how all investors could engage in “migrant lens investing."
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Three Questions With Darren Walker
Ford Foundation president Darren Walker talks with SSIR senior editor Michael Slind about what organizations like his can do to address inequality.
What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean?
A clear definition of equity would seem paramount to galvanizing philanthropy into action around this increasingly used term—but the field is only beginning to explore what it really means.