Measuring Social Impact
A Focus on Culture
How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.
Tag: Grantmaking
Measuring Social Impact
Risky Business
How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.
Measuring Social Impact
Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
Foundations
From Charitable Giving to Strategic Investing
Foundations are shifting the conversation about their work and impact.
Philanthropy
Not All Nonprofit Mergers Are Created Equal
Lessons from the Community Catalyst Fund in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Foundations
Nonprofit Resilience Relies on Smarter Grantmaking: Part 3
A new study examines field-wide grantmaking attitudes and practices.
Foundations
Nonprofit Resilience Relies on Smarter Grantmaking: Part 2
A new study examines field-wide grantmaking attitudes and practices and how philanthropy can effectively support nonprofits to thrive amid a changing environment.
Foundations
Nonprofit Resilience Relies on Smarter Grantmaking: Part 1
A new study examines field-wide grantmaking attitudes and practices, and how philanthropy can effectively support nonprofits to thrive amid a changing environment.
Foundations
Tracking the Field of Environmental Philanthropy
Highlights from a newly released environmental philanthropy report.
Foundations
To Spend Out, or Not To Spend Out? What Every Foundation Should Ask Itself
An analysis of the perspectives and value of the debate of whether foundations should spend out.