What Makes Funder Collaboration Effective?
Aligned objectives, clear decision-making structures, knowledge flows, adaptability, and assuring utility for grantee partners.
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Housing and Local Solutions: Elevating What Works
Local initiatives are breaking new ground to make access to housing and opportunity more affordable and equitable and to increase the resources dedicated to housing justice.
You Could Spend Your Money Differently
In an era of big-bet philanthropy, a small foundation can still have an outsize impact. Here are seven techniques for getting more from your philanthropic dollar.
Philanthropic Investment in People Power
The California Endowment is spearheading renewed interest in an approach that supports communities to be the architects of their own equity efforts.
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The Displeasing Helpful Hand
People who receive help earlier in a task feel better about the aid than those who receive it toward the end.
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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.