Getting to the Heart of Healthy Funder-Grantee Relationships
Three practices successful social sector partnerships can adopt to improve their alignment and generate better results.
Philanthropy & Funding - Most Popular
New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
Lessons from a Development Impact Bond
A results-based financing program to improve educational access and achievement in India shows the importance of data-driven decision-making and adaptive leadership.
How Grantmaking Can Create Adaptive Organizations
Philanthropists should create collaborative relationships with grantees that cultivate critical thinking, learning, and adaptation.
Social Impact Bonding
In Belgium, leaders of a nonprofit are using a pay-for-success mechanism to fund a program for young migrant job seekers.
Terms of Investment
A shift in the language used to describe and report social impact reflects the influence of an elite group of financial professionals.
Review
Does Philanthropy Threaten Democracy?
We should be more concerned about foundations’ outsized role in education policy.
A Movement Without Letters
How funders can listen better, step back, and walk alongside grassroots leadership.
Staying the Course in Funding Climate Change Solutions
Frequent changes in grantmaking strategies can undermine the resilience of nonprofit organizations and their progress on addressing urgent global issues.
Building Inclusion from the Inside-Out: A Brief Case Study
The philanthropic sector believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to any social mission, but how can organizations ensure that their own people and processes reflect those values?
IN-DEPTH SERIES
Putting Grantees at the Center of Philanthropy
This multi-part series, produced in partnership with Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, tells the story of why and how grantee inclusion is key to effective philanthropy, from both the funder and nonprofit perspectives.