Philanthropy & Funding
Ownership and Equity
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.
Tag: Grantmaking
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropy Needs More Disconfirmation Bias
Without mechanisms for incorporating disconfirming evidence, grantmakers miss the opportunity for greater impact.
Philanthropy & Funding
A Trust-Based Model for Indigenous Grantmaking
Showing up for reconciliation by building community and broadening our mandate as funders
Philanthropy & Funding
Deepening Impact Through Relational Philanthropy
Philanthropy must learn to center relationships without backing away from the inherent messiness of diverse points of view.
Philanthropy & Funding
Funders Fundraising: A New Philanthropic Trend
More and more funders are adding a feature to their strategy: explicitly soliciting funding from their peers to amplify their own work.
Philanthropy & Funding
Big Bets for the Long Haul
How to help big bet philanthropy lead to even bigger social change down the road
Philanthropy & Funding
How Movement-Accountable Intermediaries Can Change Philanthropy
Leaders of several intermediary organizations share how they envision their role within—and how they ultimately hope to upend—the philanthropic landscape.
Philanthropy & Funding
Why Isn’t No-Strings Funding More Common?
Unrestricted grants produce powerful impacts, but we won’t see more of them until we address the hidden barriers.
Education
New Data on Racial Justice Grants Should Alarm—and Motivate—Education Philanthropy
After myriad funder press releases and pledges, both racial equity and racial justice grantmaking dropped significantly between 2018 and 2021.
sponsored
The Rise of Trust-Based Philanthropy
Funders are embracing a more equitable way of working with nonprofits by prioritizing collaboration and trust.