Collaboration
Pleasantly Surprised by What’s Inside Pandora’s Box
It’s critical to test different approaches to grantee inclusion and to incorporate new learning along the way.
Tag: Grants
Collaboration
Grantee Inclusion: A Step Towards Mutual Accountability?
Grantee inclusion is not sufficiently powerful to transform grantee-funder relationships, but it might present a vision for a sector that more evenly shares power.
Leadership
The Gift of Grantee Inclusion
Grantee inclusion requires learning, risk-taking, and letting go of cherished behaviors and ways of working to make progress.
Collaboration
The Ripple Effect of Foundation Culture
Foundations’ internal practices and culture ripple out to grantees in meaningful ways, and it directly accelerates or impedes grantees’ effectiveness.
Collaboration
Walking a Different Kind of Grantmaker Walk
By actively moving into the roles of advocate and partner for grantees, grantmakers can cultivate trusting, transparent relationships that ultimately translate into social impact.
Collaboration
Ask Questions, First to Learn but Then to Act
Now, more than ever, grantmakers are asking questions and working to learn with and from their grantees, but the lessons matter only if they inform future action.
Philanthropy & Funding
Staying the Course in Funding Climate Change Solutions
Frequent changes in grantmaking strategies can undermine the resilience of nonprofit organizations and their progress on addressing urgent global issues.
Collaboration
Who’s Getting Paid to Advance Grantee Inclusion?
It’s time to recognize how inequity shapes funders’ choice of partners.
Collaboration
Grantee Inclusion: What’s It All About?
Including grantees in decision-making, program-building, and strategy is critical to effective social impact. While the things grantmakers “do” are important, authentic inclusion also requires that they embrace a new mindset.
Cities
Building “Silicon Valleys of Impact”
As US cities race to build out strategies for fostering local innovation and technology, there is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to support social entrepreneurs.