Philanthropy & Funding
The Strategic Value of Trust-Based Philanthropy
The core practices that define a trust-based approach can, through multiple pathways, lead to both increased resource efficiency and outsized impact.
The core practices that define a trust-based approach can, through multiple pathways, lead to both increased resource efficiency and outsized impact.
Nearly two decades after our founding, the Chorus Foundation and our allies take stock on what we have learned about philanthropy, power, and creating a better world.
Spending down is only a tactic. To turn it into something more strategic, we will need to consider a host of questions.
The Kataly Foundation invests in communities in ways that ensure that more value stays in the community.
Visionary solidarity economy projects are putting down roots in communities across the United States. But philanthropy will be needed for these seeds to bear fruit.
Philanthropies can leverage the expertise and capabilities of for-profit companies to advance charitable causes by employing global access commitments. | Open access to this article is made possible by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Scholar and activist Christopher Paul Harris re-envisions the history of Black protest movements to argue for new politics based on pain, joy, and care.
Instead of exacerbating biases with the standard playbook, peer nominations help funders build a more efficient, equitable, and impactful pipeline.
As currently structured, requests for proposal (RFPs) are counterproductive to social change efforts. We must redesign granting systems to empower the communities in which we work.