Philanthropy
The Wrong Risks
By paying so much attention to managing their own risks, philanthropists are no longer attending to the marginalized people who risk so much to make change happen.
Tag: Grants
Philanthropy
Foundations Need to Act Smarter
Essentials of Social Innovation
The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle
Funders must take the lead in breaking a vicious cycle that is leaving nonprofits so hungry for decent infrastructure that they can barely function as organizations—let alone serve their beneficiaries.
Online Giving
The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
Philanthropy
Foundation Hoarding Backfires; Billions Lost
Scared foundations now regret hoarding their grants.
Nonprofits
How to Fund Nonprofit Mergers and Partnerships
Mergers may require their own specific funding. The author recommends various sources for such funding.
Philanthropy
Foundations Need to Kick Fixation on Themselves
Foundations need to work harder to improve the operations and impact of the giving sector.
Philanthropy
Making Nonprofit Collaboration a Foundation Strategy: The Lodestar Foundation
The Lodestar Foundation supports nonprofit collaborations, mergers, and other cooperative activities as a major strategy.
Podcast
Measurement & Evaluation
Good Measures Conference - Evaluation: New Ways of Working Together
How does an organization get through the evaluation process and live to tell about it? In this panel, part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, funders and fundees on both sides of the table from a variety of organizations in the areas of education and social services talk about what it was like to be in the trenches of successful evaluation processes. They tease out common success factors, including how to work collaboratively across sectors and with multiple constituents.
Social Innovations
Money to Grow On
Certain nonprofits can take a page from business's playbook and learn how to attract cash for expansion.