Now is the time for funders to back local leaders who are making lasting improvements to people's lives and the systems that shape them, even amidst global disruption.
The relationship between impact and time varies issue by issue.
Critics of grantmaking practices and advocates of reform should support hiring more staff to improve accountability, return on investment, and equality of opportunity.
The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective was created to fund work led by and for communities most impacted by environmental racism, climate change, and unjust systems. Four years later, what lessons can funders draw from our experiences supporting frontline communities?
Collaborative funding models must reach beyond initial funding to build long-term strategies for sustainability, growth, and impact.
Wealth Shared empowers a collective of people to determine grantmaking decisions.
Learning and evaluation can best serve both funders and social innovators by centering equity, trust, adaptive learning, and grantee approaches.
SSIR’s new issue delves into ownership in both the straightforward and metaphorical senses and how the idea grounds a community and provides a source of systemic change.
Without mechanisms for incorporating disconfirming evidence, grantmakers miss the opportunity for greater impact.
Showing up for reconciliation by building community and broadening our mandate as funders
