COVID Was the Rehearsal
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.
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New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
Why Catalytic Capital Needs a Better Definition
The decline and fall of ESG offers a cautionary tale for social impact financing and highlights the need for the sector to sharpen its understanding of catalytic capital. A new definitional framework for catalytic capital can help drive clarity, measurement, and greater market participation.
Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure
How artmaking and creative practice in the United States can address community challenges, strengthen local economies, and rebuild human connections—and three less-well-traveled ways to support it.
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Data on Purpose 2025
AI technologies are reshaping society. SSIR brought together 20+ leaders to explore the intersections of AI with civil society, ethics, governance, the public sector, and more.
Helping NGOs and Funders Make the ‘Big Shift’ to Working With Government
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
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
How the Bama Works Fund mobilized private, public, and philanthropic capital to transform public housing
Exit to Open
In a difficult time when many nonprofits will be forced to close, nonprofit leaders and funders must act to preserve data and other intangible assets.
A Systems Change Framework to Impact Investing
A key factor preventing impact investing from reaching its maximum potential is the absence of robust monitoring and learning processes anchored in systems change principles.
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Partnering to Advance Grassroots Movements Through Collaboratives
A collaborative funder and fund leader discuss partnerships with local leaders, how to get funds moving where they need to go, and human-centered impact.