Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

By Laura Zabel

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.

Helping NGOs and Funders Make the ‘Big Shift’ to Working With Government

By Rakesh Rajani & Tim Hanstad 12

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

By Alice Kang’ethe

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

By Christine Mahoney 1

How the Bama Works Fund mobilized private, public, and philanthropic capital to transform public housing

Exit to Open

By Jim Fruchterman & Steve Francis 2

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

By Daniela Afonso, Mariana Cabral, Ana Pimenta & Ricardo Zózimo 1

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

By Marie Dageville & Laura Garcia

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.

Invest in Fundraising to End Foundation Dependency

By Armando Zumaya

In this funding crisis, we need to play the long game and build independent capacity for the long term.