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Big Bets Are Important. But So Is a Big Heart.
The founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy argues in favor of giving that addresses humanity’s most urgent needs.
Tag: Fundraising
Technology
Using Online Donations to Strengthen Philanthropy in China
There is no single path to successful digital philanthropy in China, but a new study provides six questions that stakeholders should ask themselves as they begin to develop their strategies.
Philanthropy & Funding
Behavioral Economics and Donor Nudges: Impulse or Deliberation?
Charitable organizations can use insights from behavioral economics to help people follow through on their impulsive and deliberative intentions to give.
Video
Civic Engagement
#GivingTuesday and Changing Philanthropic Behaviors in the Digital Age
Asha Curran, chief innovation officer at the 92nd Street Y and director of its Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, discussed the evolution of the grassroots giving movement at our 2018 Data on Purpose conference.
Philanthropy & Funding
Choosing the Best Charity
Charitable givers see their decisions as subjective and view “effectiveness” as one among many criteria that should guide their donations.
Scaling
Massive Aggregation: A New Form of New Power
By pooling money, individuals who may otherwise feel powerless are attempting to address imbalances of wealth and influence in the social sector.
Foundations
Funding Feedback
Fund for Shared Insight is pooling the cash and convictions of 13 philanthropies to build the field of end-user feedback. Can its leaders become role models for the positive change they seek to create? Open access to this article is made possible by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (Fund for Shared Insight).
Philanthropy & Funding
The #GivingTuesday Model
The social sector has a lot to learn from the innovation network that has emerged from the post-Thanksgiving global giving movement.
Philanthropy & Funding
How Foundations Make an Impact
Research shows that foundations are motivated by impact in their grantmaking.
Education
When Funding Moves Away From Universities
Foundations are shifting their higher-education funding to outside organizations that promote initiatives they favor.