Sectors
Rethinking Spending Rates
Endowment spending rates are at the heart of every foundation and should hold deep connections to mission alignment, values, and governance.
Tag: Grantmaking
Impact Investing
A New Path for Social Enterprises Through the “Valley of Death”
Providing a tailored mix of different types of capital and reestablishing a more human-centered sense of accountability is helping social enterprises traverse the proverbial funding gap.
Corporate Philanthropy
Improving Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships
Three ways corporations can more effectively partner with nonprofits.
Big Picture
Understanding Risk Tolerance in Grantmaking
By applying behavioral economics theory to philanthropy, we can better manage grantmaker tendencies toward loss and risk aversion, and the effects of other decision-making patterns.
Government
Five Programmatic Lessons in Scaling Impact
A look at how a number of Social Innovation Fund subgrantees are successfully developing program strategies for greater growth and impact.
Foundations
Big and Fast Is Not Better
Building relationships with grassroots organizations that advocate for human rights-based development takes time, but without investing in them, philanthropy is likely to stumble. The case of Haiti is instructive.
Practical Advice
Five Lessons for New Philanthropists
Before tackling complex social problems, new philanthropists should consider what current philanthropists have learned about how to “hack.”
Big Picture
Using Social Incubation to Drive Local Innovation
A look at why and how social innovation can catalyze solutions for local problems from within the community, rather than by importing ideas from the outside.
Big Picture
Is Sean Parker the Daenerys Targaryen of Philanthropy?
Like Game of Thrones’ “Dany” Targaryen, entrepreneur Sean Parker is intent on replacing what he sees as a broken and oppressive system with something better.