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Building Power for Healthy Communities
A decade of learning about power building from The California Endowment’s “Building Healthy Communities” initiative
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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Re-Embracing the Work of Fundraising
A professional fundraiser suggests five ways to reverse the decline in charitable giving.
Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs
If funders want “less talk and more walk” in the field of systems change, it’s time they started funding small, locally led organizations.
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Strategy and Power Building
What the progressive movement can learn from military strategy
Measuring Narrative Change: Moving From Theory to Practice
Funders may be reluctant to support narrative work because progress is difficult to evaluate. Are these objections valid?
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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.