Philanthropy & Funding
Do and Learn, Don’t Wait and See
Ten questions to help unsure funders get unstuck and take strategic action now.
Tag: Grantee
Nonprofits & NGOs
Invest in Fundraising to End Foundation Dependency
In this funding crisis, we need to play the long game and build independent capacity for the long term.
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Transforming Foundation Learning and Evaluation Into a Power Building Strategy
To build shared decision-making, foundations must put aside narrow definitions of rigor and embrace new understandings of accountability.
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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities
The Kresge Foundation wanted to learn with grantees about work at the intersection of housing and health equity. Their takeaway: Fund community-driven solutions and community power.
Measurement & Evaluation
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Podcast
Philanthropy & Funding
Trust-Based Philanthropy and Strategic Giving
Trust-based philanthropy is becoming an increasingly well-defined approach for addressing the power imbalance in the nonprofit sector and closing the gap between funders and grantees. How does a trust-based approach to giving compare to a strategic one? To help us explore the characteristics of both, SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks with Julia Reed of Schwab Charitable, Philip Li of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and Nadia Roumani, cofounder of the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative at PACS. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
Collaboration
Lessons on Effective Collaboration From the California Health Workforce Project
The experience of the California Future Health Workforce Commission to improve the state's supply of health professionals revealed the importance of upfront planning, clear partnering agreements, and graceful ways to pause when things don’t go as planned with highly collaborative efforts to solve complex social problems.
Philanthropy & Funding
France’s ‘Soft Loan’ Model Paves Way for Recoverable Grants in US
A French financing tool that enables private investors to help nonprofits scale could offer a roadmap to define recoverable grants in the United States.
Excerpt
Philanthropy & Funding
Strategy Done Wrong
An excerpt of Giving Done Right details the death of top-down philanthropy.
Measurement & Evaluation
Using Client Feedback to Stay on Course
Like a good GPS system, signals from multiple sources—grantees, staff, other funders, and beneficiaries—can help pinpoint where foundations stand. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.