Collaboration
Does Your Backbone Organization Have Backbone?
How collective impact efforts—done right—can break through a systemic barrier to nonprofit collaboration.
Tag: Grantmaking
Foundations
Fostering Systems Change
Five simple rules for foundations seeking to create lasting social change.
Philanthropy & Funding
Show Me the Money
It’s time for more foundations and philanthropists to make $10 million plus grants to social change organizations.
Philanthropy & Funding
Lessons from the Moore Foundation’s Largest and Longest Grants
In 2002 the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation made two long-term mega-grants—one to CalTech for $300 million and the other to Conservation International for $395 million.
Philanthropy & Funding
Making Big Bets for Social Change
How to close the gap between what donors say they want to achieve and where they actually put their money.
IMPACT INDIA
Giving Back to India
Indian Americans are donating more than ever before to support broad-based social change aimed at reducing India’s inequities.
Philanthropy & Funding
Five Guidelines for Successful Funder Collaborations
Lessons from the Packard Foundation on how funders can effectively work together to amplify their resources and impact.
Foundations
Philanthropy: The New Risk Capital?
Novel, targeted investment strategies are giving donors a powerful chance to spend wisely—by fueling the innovation economy.
Leadership
A Network Approach to a “No Kill” Nation
Using a strategy that starts and ends with community-based collaboration, the animal welfare organization Maddie’s Fund and its partners are achieving the ambitious goal of a no-kill nation.
Collaboration
Building New Networks for Efficient, Affordable Housing
Three lessons on accelerating targeted social change through network building.