When the Big Bet Fails
The Northwest Area Foundation learns—and shares—hard lessons from a 10-year initiative.
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Foundations as Investors
Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.
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Philanthropy and the Free Market in Education
Jaquelin Hume Foundation Executive Director Gisele Huff talks about the foundation's investment strategy, and why innovation and technology initiatives are significant.
A New Source for Funding Nonprofit Mergers and Collaborations
A look into the merger of Lodestar Foundation and Sea Change Capital Partners to examine what defines "sensible collaboration" between nonprofits.
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The funder-as-purchaser model offers new frameworks to spur new thinking and advancements in the nonprofit sector.
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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.