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How to Use Integrated Capital to Shift Power to the Front Lines
The Kataly Foundation invests in communities in ways that ensure that more value stays in the community.
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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Supporting Visions of New Economic Power
Visionary solidarity economy projects are putting down roots in communities across the United States. But philanthropy will be needed for these seeds to bear fruit.
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Building Political Power When Everything Is at Stake
Philanthropy needs more movement funders who stand on the side of racial and economic justice and against right-wing authoritarianism.
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Building Grassroots Political Power
Our work organizing the Laotian community in Richmond, California, is a case study in power building.
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Power to the People
At Kindle Project, we have embraced power-sharing models for more than a decade. Although we have gained many new insights, we continue to maintain that philanthropy must share power with the communities it seeks to uplift.
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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.