The Unintended Consequences of Data Standardization
Building a more equitable, effective, and efficient social sector will require understanding and addressing these risks.
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A Multiracial Democracy in the United States Requires Racial Repair
Comprehensive reparations are fundamental to realizing our highest democratic ideals.
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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers
As the world of work is reshaped by AI, there are opportunities within the critical, fast-growing care sector to enable and support a workforce facing acute shortages.
New Data on Racial Justice Grants Should Alarm—and Motivate—Education Philanthropy
After myriad funder press releases and pledges, both racial equity and racial justice grantmaking dropped significantly between 2018 and 2021.
What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts
Is it possible for modern capital fundraising to be grounded in socially just principles?
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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.