Health
Native Wisdom Is Revolutionizing Health Care
Southcentral Foundation has vastly improved Alaska Native welfare while saving on costs by using traditional healing practices.
Tag: Fundraising
Philanthropy & Funding
Don’t Give Big. Instead, Invest Thoughtfully.
This spring, community foundations around the country will host one-day, online giving campaigns for nonprofits in their regions. But the model needs an overhaul if it’s going to benefit more than the community foundations themselves.
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Using the Internet to Transform Giving
How the Internet giant Tencent is using its online platform to help increase charitable giving in China.
Arts & Culture
Collaborative Fundraising
The Contributor Development Partnership is revitalizing public broadcasting with a fundraising model that can help other large nonprofits with local affiliates.
Collaboration
When Straight-Line Planning Doesn’t Work
How network theory challenges conventional planning strategies and points toward a more flexible, collaborative approach to fundraising.
Social Enterprise
Turning the Page
Four years ago, a Northern California bookstore reinvented itself as a hybrid social enterprise—and its story continues to unfold.
Video
Philanthropy & Funding
If We Want Our Funding to Change the World…
Grantmakers and nonprofit leaders at the Donors Forum—an annual convening in Illinois to advance social change institutions—discuss the real cost of running an effective nonprofit and why it is essential for grantmakers to support indirect costs.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Great Management Creates Great Impact
Philanthropist Josh Bekenstein of Bain Capital explains how philanthropists unwilling to cover nonprofits’ indirect or overhead costs are missing the opportunity to completely support that organization’s mission.
Philanthropy & Funding
What’s the Return on Investment on Reviving the American Dream?
Calculating the social return on a big philanthropic investment is a grueling but necessary challenge.