Shifting Power to African Organizations
Local social enterprises need support for scaling up.
Local social enterprises need support for scaling up.
Why social change organizations must ensure that their systems, policies, cultures, and behaviors align with a broader concept of leadership that centers equity and justice and encompasses leadership in all its forms.
A polycrisis of numerous converging and intersecting trends is affecting every aspect of society, including philanthropy.
Racial equity can’t be thought of solely as a funding priority; it must be a critical component of philanthropy’s own way of being.
We’re all better off when we’re all better off.
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.
A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
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.