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Giving That Gets Engagement
A look at growing engagement in #GivingTuesday and common themes that emerged during the 8-week Giving That Gets Results series.
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Funding for Outcomes
Mario Morino, author of Leap of Reason, discusses funder pitfalls in setting and measuring goals for grantees.
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Tackling Political Polarization Through Philanthropy
Steps funders can take to tackle partisan gridlock and solve social problems at scale.
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Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy
Nancy Roob shares how the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.
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Grantees as Customers
Four ways funders can serve and empower grantees.
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Disrupting Corporate Philanthropy
Three best moves and three biggest lessons—Marc Benioff reflects on more than a decade of work at the Salesforce.com Foundation.
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Inventing and Reinventing a Philanthropy Model in India
Deval Sanghavi, head of the venture philanthropy fund Dasra, describes his work testing and building new platforms for giving in India.
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Don’t Just Aggregate Funds, Unleash Them!
Raising money is just part of the social change equation—an interview with Helen LaKelly Hunt and Emily Nielsen Jones of Women Moving Millions.
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Worth the Risk: Supporting the Art of Great Teaching
How collaborative classroom evaluation is producing measures teachers can trust.
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On Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Measuring Impact
Don’t let evaluation distort your mission.
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Using Metrics to Encourage Innovation
By introducing a learning agenda, funders can encourage innovation, drive philanthropic dollars to the best programs, and become better partners to grantees.
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Sustainable Corporate Philanthropy
Blackstone’s Amy Stursberg explains how the Blackstone Charitable Foundation has focused on job creation and created a platform for near- and long-term impact.
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Don’t Dig a Deep Hole, Then Leave
Philanthropy lessons from India—Padmini Somani, head of two different foundations, talks about following the data and staying the course.
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Google Giving: Calibrating Moon Shots
When we back only proven and incremental ideas, we miss out on the opportunity to test new ones that could potentially change millions of lives.
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Stumbling into Philanthropy
Turning a bunch of money into a lot of impact.
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Networking to Improve
A look at how the Legacy Fund inspires philanthropic learning.
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Tackling Overhead Together
Grantmakers and nonprofits must come to a mutual understanding of the true costs of change.
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The Promise of Effective Altruism
The effective altruism movement has the potential to create an aspirational anchor, which may change giving practices over time.
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Transforming the Donor-Grantee Relationship
Effective giving requires strong personal relationships and networks.
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Fostering For-Profit Civic Innovation
City, state, and federal government agencies in the United States could benefit from the creative energy of new companies dedicated to the unique challenges of the public sector.
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Getting Results for Afghan Women
A conversation with philanthropist Connie Duckworth, founder of ARZU Studio Hope.
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Funding the Unforeseen
By creating mechanisms to efficiently plan for uncertainty, philanthropists can ensure that they maintain forward momentum and keep their impact on track.
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Changemaker vs. Grantmaker
Three abilities every foundation needs to achieve long-term impact.
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Giving That Gets Results: An Introduction
A look at adaptive philanthropy, and the forthcoming series of blogs, videos, and webinars that explore new and important approaches to philanthropy.
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