Foundations
Open Philanthropy
We need to bring foundations—and their vast repositories of information on who is doing what in the social economy—out into the open.
Tag: Grants
Philanthropy
The Key to Capacity Building Is Funding Long-Term Health Not Short-Term Workouts
Philanthropists: Rather than making periodic grants that focus on capacity building, embed capacity-building funding into each and every grant you make.
Podcast
Collaboration
Promoting Philanthropy Through Collaboration
Founder of Taproot Aaron Hurst discusses how the organization started and how it creates its cross-sector collaboration.
Global Issues
Thinking Small
The problem with “changing the world” is that it probably involves invoking impossibly superficial means to address oversimplified problems.
Philanthropy
Tears for Tech
Response to the fact that a majority of surveyed funders devoted 10 percent or less to tech-related grants and activities.
Government
Social Innovation Fund Moves Swiftly Forward Despite Funding Threat
Takeaways from an interview with SIF Director Paul Carttar after his keynote panel discussion at the 2011 Social Enterprise Conference this past weekend.
Foundations
A Different Kind of Philanthropy
The Mulago Foundation is practicing a form of philanthropy that is desperately needed. It is a fundamental departure from the conventional wisdom of what good philanthropy is suppose to be about.
Corporate Philanthropy
Do No Evil
Google DotOrg launched in 2004 with bold ambitions and almost $1 billion in seed funding. But the results have been less than stellar.
Philanthropy
The Rise of Evidence-Based Grantmaking
We are in the midst of a revolution in philanthropy.