Measurement & Evaluation
Philanthropy’s Most Important Metric Is the One It Never Measures
We judge philanthropic capital's impact by what it builds while it is building. We should judge by what stands, without it, after the grant has ended.
Tag: Funding
Philanthropy & Funding
Funding Community Ownership
A grassroots effort in Silicon Valley addresses the needs of the working-class immigrant community.
Nonprofits & NGOs
A New Look at How US Nonprofits Get Really Big
In 2007, we published research analyzing how nonprofits with more than $50 million in annual revenue were funded. Has anything changed?
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Evidence 2.0: The Next Era of Evidence-Based Policymaking
Five years after passage of the Evidence Act, has it worked? And what's next?
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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building
To take part in transformative social change, philanthropists must think toward a future in which their own centrality is diminished.
Environment
Response: Embracing Regulation and Fighting ‘Corporate Capture’
Funders must examine how to realistically drive measurable progress on sustainability in the fashion industry.
Webinar
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Data on Purpose 2023: “Making Tech Work for Workers”
This two-day open-access virtual conference we will bring together some of the sharpest minds in this field to explore the risks of tech innovation that fails to serve labor, and envision what is needed to build a better, more worker-centered digital economy.
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Scaling
Why We Didn’t Fund Your Scaling Plan
A checklist to avoid common problems that funders have identified in evaluating applications.
Podcast
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Participatory Grantmaking: A Shared Approach to Effective Change
Those who are closest to problems are often the ones with the greatest insights into how to address them. In many ways, that's the ethos of participatory grantmaking, which empowers communities to decide who and what gets funded. SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks with Maria De La Cruz of Headwaters Foundation for Justice, Irene Wong of The David & Lucile Packard Foundation, and Mary Jovanovich of Schwab Charitable about what this approach looks like in action. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.