Capacity by Any Other Name
Donors don’t know much about capacity building, except that they don’t like the term.
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Cute and Lucrative
Sidebar to "Crisis Mentality:" some species attract donors more than others.
Choosing Mission Over Money
Sidebar to "Crisis Mentality:" giving for the long term.
Giving Donors Control
A United Way affiliate has boosted fundraising by breaking the rules.
Podcast
Luther Ragin, Jr. - Is Grantmaking Enough? A Case for Mission-Related Investing
Luther Ragin, Jr., Vice President of Investments for The F.B. Heron Foundation, explains how the mission-related investment approach can harness a foundation's financial power to maximize its social return. From the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford.
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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.