Collaboration Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy
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How to Fight Polarization
Personal stories that highlight humility and vulnerability can overcome mistrust and polarization.
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Building Community-Centered AI Collaborations
Mission-driven organizations should look beyond the tech sector and build AI partnerships with academia, CBOs, artists, and foundations.
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What Makes Collaborative Philanthropy Different?
Collaborative funds are more than pooled resources. Rebecca Darwent, a philanthropic advisor and co-founder of the Foundation for Black Communities, discusses how collaborative funds are giving donors new ways to fund solutions to systemic problems, how they flip the power dynamics and decision-making models of many traditional philanthropic institutions, and why the field is growing. She challenges donors, funders, and philanthropy as a whole to think more deeply about collaboration and building trust with grantee partners. Giving With Impact is developed with the support of DAFgiving360®
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Governing Our Data on Our Own Terms
How one urban Indigenous organization is working to transform data governance using a model that’s founded on Indigenous values
Resourcing Appalachian Resilience After Helene
Appalachia's trust-based recovery from climate disaster offers a vision of the future and a road map to follow, for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure is exposed to climate volatility.
The Future of the Performing Arts Depends on Strategic Partnerships
As the industry and its financial model become increasingly precarious, a reimagining of how performing arts organizations can operate more efficiently is critical for survival.
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Protecting Our Neighbors
Building power in communities now will protect them from the next threat to democracy.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
The Dawn of System Leadership
The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.