Striking a Balance
A note from the editor on the Spring 2014 issue.
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The Re-Emerging Art of Funding Innovation
A growing number of foundations are reintroducing risk-taking into their processes and portfolios as one way to create breakthrough change.
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What Would It Take?
The president and CEO of GEO describes what the organization learned over the course of its Scaling What Works initiative.
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Pathways to Scale for a Place-Based Funder
The VP of program at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation explains how her organization supports local nonprofits.
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The Road to Scale Runs Through Public Systems
The president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation writes about the importance of working with public systems.
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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.