Closing Philanthropy’s Gender Gap
The Giving List Women believes that investing in women and girls helps everyone thrive.
Philanthropy & Funding - Most Popular
New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
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New Evaluation Approaches That Fuel Collective Action
Learning and evaluation can best serve both funders and social innovators by centering equity, trust, adaptive learning, and grantee approaches.
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Rewiring the Great Wealth Transfer
We need an alternative vision of capital allocation that invests in and ensures a healthier, happier, and more equitable world.
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A Regenerative Economy in Action
Coralus demonstrates that better ways of allocating capital are possible.
Ownership and Equity
SSIR’s new issue delves into ownership in both the straightforward and metaphorical senses and how the idea grounds a community and provides a source of systemic change.
SSIR Online, Winter 2025 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about strategic philanthropy, strengthening global democracy, crisis planning, and nonprofits leveraging AI innovations
CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.
A budding success story in East Texas offers lessons for other underserved rural regions, philanthropies interested in rural revitalization, and CDFIs pursuing pathways to better engage and serve rural communities.
Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy
There are many reasons why philanthropists still haven’t supported SMEs at the scale we need. They need to get over it; the opportunity to leverage impact is enormous.
Systems Change Isn’t One Thing. Financing Should Reflect That
From experimentation to redesign to optimization, the interconnected processes by which systems are changed require distinct forms of funding.
