Collaboration
Elevating Community Authority in Collective Impact
To achieve greater equity, we must yield to the decision-making authority of the communities we seek to help.
Tag: Partnerships
Advocacy
The Secret to Better Storytelling for Social Change: Better Partnerships
No single organization or individual can pull off an effective storytelling campaign alone. Reaping the benefits of storytelling requires that we build better partnerships between three important players.
Collaboration
Realizing the SDGs Through Transformational Corporate-NGO Partnerships
Reflections on a 50-year partnership between an international NGO and multi-national corporation, and why working together in true partnership is the only way to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
Collaboration
Resetting the Grantor-Grantee Relationship
Simple changes in mindset and behavior can break the cycle of strain and mistrust in grantor-grantee relationships.
Security
New Weapons Against Nuclear Threats
The cross-sector collaborative N Square hopes to influence the cultural conversation and rekindle public awareness about the danger that nuclear weapons pose to humanity.
Impact Investing
A New Local Movement
Benefit Chicago demonstrates how place-based impact investing transforms a community by seeing the investment potential in everyone.
Foundations
Funding Feedback
Fund for Shared Insight is pooling the cash and convictions of 13 philanthropies to build the field of end-user feedback. Can its leaders become role models for the positive change they seek to create? Open access to this article is made possible by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (Fund for Shared Insight).
Collaboration
Worldly Strategy for the Global Climate
Progress in dealing with the problem of climate change will require that the institutions of government, business, and community work not in isolation from each other, let alone at cross-purposes, but by reinforcing each other’s efforts through consolidation.
Education
When Funding Moves Away From Universities
Foundations are shifting their higher-education funding to outside organizations that promote initiatives they favor.
Collaboration
Learn Before You Leap: The Catalytic Power of a Learning Network
Why learning networks are one of the most effective ways to accelerate learning and strengthen coordination across the social sector.