Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses one of the biggest challenges in the nonprofit world - how to evaluate progress and success.
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses what risk really means to both nonprofits and foundations, and why foundations should take more risks.
The collapse of New York’s largest nonprofit human services agency is an urgent reminder of the need for funding reform.
Nancy Roob, president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, talks about the foundation’s True North Fund, which allows investors to put money into a pool fund that can then support multiple organizations and increase efficiency.
Mario Morino, co-founder of Venture Philanthropy Partners, discusses how important leadership is to the culture, performance, and success of an organization.
Calculating the social return on a big philanthropic investment is a grueling but necessary challenge.
After a decade of research and evidence gathering, one education nonprofit convinced Congress that its model is worthy of federal dollars—but even the architect of the model wonders how it will fare in the public sector.
In more and more cases, prize competitions provide recipients with resources to pursue their work even before they complete a proposed project.
A new program gives nonprofits the resources to listen more closely to the people they serve.
Nonprofits and their funders need to plan for—and budget for—unforeseen events that can disrupt worthy projects.
