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.
Tag: Grantmaking
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.
Foundations
Investing in Networks Grows Impact
Participation in a network allows foundations to leverage their individual investment by surfacing multiple, ongoing opportunities for collaborative grantmaking.
Foundations
Systems Change Should Lift Up Beneficiary Voices
When collaborating on systems transformation, we must include both program beneficiaries and institutional leaders.
Review
Foundations
Uncertain Legacy
Can the history of a century-old foundation amount to more than the sum of its grants?
Nonprofits
Better Relationships, Better Results
A new survey shows that nonprofits and funders are finding new ways of working together, in the effort to achieve greater impact.
Foundations
Supporting Nonprofit Leadership: A Pre-Flight Briefing
Three tips to help foundations supporting leadership development prepare for a successful journey.
Human Rights
Migrants at the Border and Philanthropy at Home
What the US government and funders are doing about unaccompanied child migration, and where we need to look next.