Philanthropy & Funding
Funding the Invisible
How nonprofits in countries with conflict and closing civil spaces are doubly penalized in the funding world, and 10 ways funders can better serve them.
Tag: Risk Management
Philanthropy & Funding
Making Compliance Work for Philanthropy
Funders need to identify, embrace, and ultimately demystify compliance, reclaiming it as a tool that enables, rather than impedes, philanthropy’s essential purpose.
Leadership
Transformative Leadership
A reading list on how leadership is changing, and how it still needs to
Governance
Taking On Tech Governance
How prioritizing technological expertise on the board level can help nonprofits and social service organizations make the most of their resources and improve outcomes for the communities they support.
Environment
Getting Honest About What We’re Willing to Risk for the Planet
Why NGOs and funders need to take bigger leaps toward innovation in environmental conservation, and how a back-of-the-napkin risk assessment tool can help.
Technology
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.
Foundations
How to Think About Risk in Philanthropy
Foundation officers and endowment managers too often prefer exceedingly safe grants and investments because of misapplied principles, biases, and concerns about their reputations. A Viewpoint from the Winter 2020 issue.