The Strategic Value of Trust-Based Philanthropy
The core practices that define a trust-based approach can, through multiple pathways, lead to both increased resource efficiency and outsized impact.
Philanthropy & Funding New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively
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Nonprofits and Governments Are Looking for Love
From crush to marriage, the spectrum of relationships between nonprofits and governments
Betting on Migration for Impact
Enabling people to move for opportunity should be an urgent priority for funders and social innovators who want to make a difference in global inequality.
Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?
Understanding the historical roots of many foundation endowments is a critical step in considering the question of philanthropic reparations.
Investing in Systems Change Capacity
Philanthropists must think beyond funding outcomes and invest in the capacity of systems to perpetuate and sustain change.
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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.