Distributing Leadership, Promoting Stewardship
Foundations can play an essential role in generating authentic conversation on hard issues, but they must be both an equal player among community partners and an active steward of the mission.
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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery
Nine investment principles for supporting disaster relief and recovery among under-resourced women and families.
Back to School
In Ethiopia, a foundation-led initiative uses accelerated learning techniques to give young people a second chance at an education.
Tracking Trafficking
Supplements to the article “Casting a Tight Net.”
Casting a Tight Net
Humanity United is pursuing a strategy that combines carrots and sticks—collaboration and activism—to confront human rights abuse in the seafood industry. Includes magazine extras.
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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.