Philanthropy & Funding

Asian Philanthropy Can and Must Lead From Within

By Naina Subberwal Batra

How Asian philanthropists are embracing adaptive, blended, and locally informed approaches to transform the uncertainty of global aid into opportunity.

Thesis-Driven Funds: A New Model for Transformational Philanthropy

By Tom Kalil & Anna McKelvey

Many wealthy donors are missing out on opportunities to make transformative investments such as creating a new scientific field or sparking the Green Revolution.

What’s Inside the House: Is Org Design Derailing Your Foundation’s Strategy?

By Justin Marcoux, Jasmine Arai, Kaitlin Terry Canver & Gabriel Kasper

As philanthropy adapts to new challenges, internal design choices can either facilitate or stand in the way of strategic dynamism.

Big Aid Is Over

By Kevin Starr 5

We need to design for what African governments can do and will pay for.

COVID Was the Rehearsal

By Madeleine Ballard, James Nardella, Jeff Jacobs, Ash Rogers, Daniel Palazuelos, Ari Johnson, Margaret Odera, Joe Ernst, Alexander Wheeler, Theebika Shanmugarasa, Mallika Raghavan, Victoria Ward, Lennie Bazira, Rachel Hofmann, Riccardo Lampariello, Nan Chen, Zeus Aranda, Emily Bancroft, Walter Kerr, Amanda Arch, Liz Diebold, Jane Leu & Doug Galen 2

Just a few years ago, philanthropy showed what it could be at its best: nimble, coordinated, unusually brave. This time, facing the sudden slashing of foreign aid, the cavalry is quieter.

Grappling With Systems Collapse: How Social Sector Leaders Can Respond

By Liz Ruedy, Tom Glaisyer & Rachel Reichenbach 1

The social sector needs new models for understanding what impact might be possible when the systems we operate in fall apart.

Helping NGOs and Funders Make the ‘Big Shift’ to Working With Government

By Rakesh Rajani & Tim Hanstad 12

The nonprofit sector and its philanthropic supporters still too often overlook the most effective pathway to exponential impact.

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The Power of Funder Collaboratives to Advance Global Health

By Alice Kang’ethe

How collaboratives can accelerate government initiatives to eliminate preventable global health problems, as seen in the case of Reaching the Last Mile Fund’s impact on a neglected tropical disease and the Beginnings Fund’s aim to increase maternal-newborn survival.

Crash Into Housing

By Christine Mahoney 1

How the Bama Works Fund mobilized private, public, and philanthropic capital to transform public housing