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End Bloated Salaries in the Nonprofit Sector
Taxpayers should not have to subsidize excessive pay for executives at charities meant to serve the public good.
Taxpayers should not have to subsidize excessive pay for executives at charities meant to serve the public good.
Grantmakers and nonprofit leaders at the Donors Forum—an annual convening in Illinois to advance social change institutions—discuss the real cost of running an effective nonprofit and why it is essential for grantmakers to support indirect costs.
Philanthropist Josh Bekenstein of Bain Capital explains how philanthropists unwilling to cover nonprofits’ indirect or overhead costs are missing the opportunity to completely support that organization’s mission.
The quest to build an infrastructure for measuring social impact depends on targeting the right customers.
The nonprofit funding process lacks transparency and fosters insecurity—and only funders can fix it.
Small- and medium-size organizations can assess impact too.
Most funders are not adequately tapping into existing data and knowledge to better inform their grantmaking.
Grantmakers and nonprofits must come to a mutual understanding of the true costs of change.
We can’t separate nonprofit programs from the people who develop and deliver them.
Five questions nonprofits should ask themselves as they prepare to scale.