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New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
The Top-Down, Bottom-Up Development Challenge
Do international development projects designed and managed at the grassroots level perform better than those managed from the outside?
Does Your Backbone Organization Have Backbone?
How collective impact efforts—done right—can break through a systemic barrier to nonprofit collaboration.
Belief-based Social Innovation: Gender-Lens’ Next Frontier
The gender-lens movement is beginning to fund culturally led efforts to transform underlying beliefs that systematically disempower females in the first place.
In Development Work, Plan for Sailboats, Not Trains
Much of the international development community remains stuck in its old ways, focused on short time horizons, rigid planning, and unproductive evaluation.
To Boost Individual Donor Giving, Nonprofits Need a Plan
A new report shows that creating a fundraising plan is paramount for organizations looking to increase individual donor gifts.
Looking Beyond Impact Investing to Support Climate Solutions
A four-point framework for funders to advance a low-carbon future using their entire endowment.
Show Me the Money
It’s time for more foundations and philanthropists to make $10 million plus grants to social change organizations.
Lessons from the Moore Foundation’s Largest and Longest Grants
In 2002 the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation made two long-term mega-grants—one to CalTech for $300 million and the other to Conservation International for $395 million.