Strategic Philanthropy Reconsidered
The authors of Money Well Spent reconsider their original arguments a second time around.
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New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
Leading with Purpose: The New Business Norm?
How purpose can attract more consumers, build deeper bonds, and amplify brand messages.
Five Ways Funders Can Support Social Movements
Foundations and other donors often want to support large-scale protests that shift public opinion around social issues. Here’s how they can back up movements during important moments in their development.
Philanthropists Must Invest in an Ecology of Change
How a “social movement ecology” framework lent new insights into substantially reducing incarceration in the United States.
The Adaptive Challenge of Restoring Trust in Civil Society
Driven by a confluence of powerful secular trends, Americans’ trust in civil society has declined to alarming levels. Without addressing these trends and reversing the loss of trust, the ideal of private action for the public good could be at risk.
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New Frontiers in Indian Corporate Social Responsibility
The timing is opportune for CSR to catalyze impact in India’s development sector.
Why Collaborations Fail
What lies under the word, “uncollaborative”? Usually, it’s an unaddressed power imbalance.
Bridging the Divide Between Idealism and Pragmatism
Funders and advocates must come together to build movements that can run successful and successive campaigns that result in good policy and grassroots power.
Money as Medicine
A prescription for healing the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance.
The Rise of Philanthropy LLCs
The for-profit LLC is poised to become the preferred vehicle for the nation’s elite philanthropists. Will the public gain from added investment in social good, or lose from ceding even more power to the wealthy?