Measuring Outcomes to Improve Social Services
Funders can support positive change by backing proven, replicable interventions and new measurement tools that help draw the connection between services offered and results achieved.
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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia
A new study reveals that foundation leaders are more self-critical than ever and are seeking urgently to create greater social impact.
Eliminating Implicit Bias in Grantmaking Practice
Some of philanthropy’s core practices may unwittingly be leading funders to perpetuate the inequities they’re trying to eliminate.
Leadership Development: Aligning Funders’ Good Intentions with Nonprofits’ Real Needs
The time is right for funders to reconsider how they can make the most of the dollars they invest in grantee leadership development, but they must start by better understanding the leadership challenges nonprofits face.
Advocating and Giving During the Trump Administration: Five History Lessons for the Social Sector
As funders, providers, and advocates pivot to face a dramatically different funding and political environment, some lessons from history may be instructive.
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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.