Making Money: A Bonus of Measuring to Improve Performance
Measurement can attract money. A nonprofit that can demonstrate results and improvement is more inviting to potential donors than one that can’t.
Philanthropy & Funding - Most Popular
New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
Friendraising Versus Slacktivism
Unmotivated donors didn’t materialize out of the ether when social media started taking over the world.
Nonprofits Aren’t More Commercial
A new study finds that nonprofits are not becoming more commercialized.
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Foundations as Investors
Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.
What If Funders Really Acted Like Purchasers?
The funder-as-purchaser model offers new frameworks to spur new thinking and advancements in the nonprofit sector.
Foundations
Just Give ’Em the Money: The Power and Pleasure of Unrestricted Funding
Unrestricted money makes an organization work smoothly, enables innovation, and provides fuel for growth.
Bringing Philanthropy into the 21st Century
The growth of the Internet opens new avenues for collaboration between foundations and nonprofits, but it's a changing landscape.
Looking Beyond the Surface: Ten Pieces of Practical Advice on Due Diligence
Ten due diligence practices for would-be funders who are in the process of sizing up a philanthropic opportunity.
We Should Expect Good Giving To Be Hard
Great giving opportunities are few and far between; I believe in urging them to give to only the very best charities.