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Communications for Community
To meet this moment, how can foundations and nonprofits orient their communications to foster connections and build community?
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Foundations Should Invest More in Staffing
Critics of grantmaking practices and advocates of reform should support hiring more staff to improve accountability, return on investment, and equality of opportunity.
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Adapting What Works to Support a Community of Doers
To counter disruptive market forces changing the media, nonprofit communicators can adopt ideas from other sectors, their own programmatic strengths, and communities.
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Funding’s Hidden Curricula
An excerpt from The Nonprofit Paradox by Nehal Gandhi
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Giving Can Be Simple (And During a Crisis, It Must Be)
When the village cannot wait, philanthropy must learn from community.
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The Gyms on the Corners
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.
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When Minnesota’s Civic Gyms Stayed Open
This article series, produced in partnership with and sponsored by the McKnight Foundation, brings together foundation leaders, community partners, and a mutual aid organizer to reflect on what happened during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
Science Philanthropy in a Democracy Under Pressure
Lessons from Brazil on how science philanthropy can and should act in the face of political hostility.
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What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
Measuring Social Value
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
What Everyone Can Learn From Leaders of Color
These leaders’ assets go beyond experiences of oppression or marginalization to include the connection, meaning, and joy they can draw on from their respective cultures and communities.
Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean?
A clear definition of equity would seem paramount to galvanizing philanthropy into action around this increasingly used term—but the field is only beginning to explore what it really means.