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The word from the trenches on how funders can make life easier for everyone.
The word from the trenches on how funders can make life easier for everyone.
A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.
Philanthropic organizations must “lean in” and confront the various ways their collective cultures get in the way.
Five lessons on creating a venture capital fund inside a foundation—a look at the Knight Enterprise Fund.
A look back at government regulation, philanthropy, “social blank” movements, and third sector grit.
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
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.
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
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.