The Power and Price of Kony-like Campaigns
Personal relationship building and donor development is critical to the longevity of organizations.
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Three Steps to More Informed Giving
What we in the philanthropic sector can do to increase informed giving by donors?
“Kony 2012” and Our Capacity to Evaluate Public Charities
The general public and even the media, by and large, simply don’t have the experience, training, or tools to fully evaluate charities’ activities.
Nonprofit Resilience Relies on Smarter Grantmaking: Part 3
A new study examines field-wide grantmaking attitudes and practices.
Nonprofit Resilience Relies on Smarter Grantmaking: Part 2
A new study examines field-wide grantmaking attitudes and practices and how philanthropy can effectively support nonprofits to thrive amid a changing environment.
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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.
Centering Equity in Collective Impact
A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.
Measuring Social Value
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
Racial bias creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process. The result is that nonprofits led by people of color receive less money than those led by whites, and philanthropy ends up reinforcing the very social ills it says it is trying to overcome.