Making Cash Pay Off
GiveDirectly relies on high tech and hard data to test whether large cash transfers can alleviate extreme poverty.
Philanthropy & Funding - Most Popular
New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
Creative Financing for Social Enterprise
Hybrid legal forms offer only a limited solution to the challenge of helping organizations access capital. Includes magazine extras.
A Global Family Affair
Philanthropic efforts funded by private family wealth—long common in the United States—are on the rise worldwide.
Podcast
Nonprofits
Achieve Great Things: The Art and Science of Aspirational Narrative
In his 2013 Nonprofit Management Institute talk, Doug Hattaway outlines the components of effective campaigns: an exciting goal, motivational language, and compelling call to action.
Leading the Way to Greater Global Giving
Celebrating collective generosity in the United States can boost philanthropy worldwide.
Philanthropy
Creating a Smarter Philanthropic Marketplace
Most funders are not adequately tapping into existing data and knowledge to better inform their grantmaking.
Innovation to Impact: Obama’s Social Innovation Fund at Four
Progress, pitfalls, and what lies ahead.
Fundraising Is Fundamental (If Not Always Fun)
Overcoming a reluctance to ask people for money is a crucial step that every nonprofit leader must make.
Attracting the Right Financing for First-Stage Scaling
Growing social enterprises from incubation to first-stage scaling opens up the need to attract different types of investments. The last of a three-part series.
Nonprofits
Transformative Scale: The Future of Growing What Works
Nine strategies to deliver impact at a scale that truly meets needs.