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The Return of Capacity Building
It’s time for a renewed conversation about building the systems, structures, and skills for social sector excellence.
Building Our Collaborative Muscles
Four ways funder-grantee networks can work together better and increase their impact.
Investing in People Pays Big Dividends
A look at how one impact investor helps develop the talent that its portfolio organizations need to succeed.
Intentional Influence in Action
A look at how influence can mobilize communities in the face of crisis.
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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.