Foundations

Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

By Katie Smith Milway

Nancy Roob shares how the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.

Nonprofit Management

Grantees as Customers

By Dave Peery 6

Four ways funders can serve and empower grantees.

Corporate Philanthropy

Disrupting Corporate Philanthropy

By Marc Benioff 1

Three best moves and three biggest lessons—Marc Benioff reflects on more than a decade of work at the Salesforce.com Foundation.

Foundations

Filling the Gap in Media Funding

By Eric Newton 1

Foundations are increasing their media-related grantmaking—but they need to do more.

Foundations

On Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Measuring Impact

By Emmett D. Carson

Don’t let evaluation distort your mission.

Foundations

Using Metrics to Encourage Innovation

By Jenny Shilling Stein 3

By introducing a learning agenda, funders can encourage innovation, drive philanthropic dollars to the best programs, and become better partners to grantees.

Foundations

Sustainable Corporate Philanthropy

By Amy Stursberg

Blackstone’s Amy Stursberg explains how the Blackstone Charitable Foundation has focused on job creation and created a platform for near- and long-term impact.

Corporate Philanthropy

Google Giving: Calibrating Moon Shots

By Jacquelline Fuller 2

When we back only proven and incremental ideas, we miss out on the opportunity to test new ones that could potentially change millions of lives.

Foundations

Stumbling into Philanthropy

By Kevin Starr 4

Turning a bunch of money into a lot of impact.

Philanthropy

Tackling Overhead Together

By Valerie Lies 2

Grantmakers and nonprofits must come to a mutual understanding of the true costs of change.