Relational Philanthropy
Philanthropy needs a new framework for building connection and trust with the communities it seeks to serve.
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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The Promise of Global Access
Philanthropies can leverage the expertise and capabilities of for-profit companies to advance charitable causes by employing global access commitments. | Open access to this article is made possible by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Finding Black Joy in Pain
Scholar and activist Christopher Paul Harris re-envisions the history of Black protest movements to argue for new politics based on pain, joy, and care.
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How to Scale Sideways
An excerpt from Fragile Neighborhoods on hyperlocal change
Zero-Problem Philanthropy
Moving away from endless problem-solving and toward creating healthy context.
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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.