Nonprofits & NGOs
Addressing Cultural Appropriation and Repairing Harm
A model for lasting change through authentic, transformational partnership.
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Nonprofits & NGOs
Funding the Fourth Estate
Philanthropists have been accused of donating disproportionately to major media outlets. An alliance of small news nonprofits seeks to make funding more equitable to save the news industry.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How Consultants Shape Nonprofits: Shared Values, Unintended Consequences
An excerpt from How Consultants Shape Nonprofits on the history of nonprofit consulting
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Listening Is Not the ‘Soft’ Option
To make measurement meaningful and real, social change organizations must cultivate a listening orientation to go beyond "objective" measurements of impact.
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Taking the Long View on Community Economic Development
Revitalizing communities that have been hit hard by post-industrial decline can take decades, but government and philanthropy often operate on short-term funding timelines. In this episode, Barbara Wheeler-Bride talks with Bo Kemp, CEO of the Southland Development Authority, about this mismatch, and how his nonprofit is working with individuals, businesses, and municipalities in Chicago's south suburbs to reinvigorate the economy. Their innovative strategies, including owning assets like housing and property, could provide a template for other struggling regions across the United States. Giving With Impact is developed with the support of DAFgiving360®
The New Nonprofit Visibility Gap
AI is narrowing the pathways available to donors for finding nonprofits worthy of support. Nonprofits and the social sector must act to ensure that donors can make fully informed decisions.
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Community Governance Is Critical for Better Data-Informed Decisions
Organizations that put authentic community governance at the heart of their work are using civic data to drive better decisions, generate more durable trust, and produce positive social change.
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What Helps Donors Get Unstuck?
Donors have the motivation and the means to give, so what’s slowing them down? Host Barbara-Wheeler Bride interviews two donor advisors about some of the roadblocks and friction philanthropic donors face when it comes to giving. First, a check-in with Mary Jovanovich, senior manager and charitable consultant at DAFgiving360®, about what she’s hearing from families and individuals. Then, a conversation with Ben Klasky, founder of Seismic Philanthropy, about “option paralysis,” why he thinks donor-advised funds may be getting a bad rap, and what nonprofits can do to better engage with donors. Giving With Impact is developed with the support of DAFgiving360®
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.