Efficacy Before Scale
To invest in and grow promising organizations and programs in a way that promotes efficacy prior to significant scaling and expansion, there are three pathways to follow: piloting, testing, and iterating.
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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How to Take Risks Without Losing Your Donors
The co-founders of She’s the First share what they learned from dropping the “child sponsorship” model that donors love.
Social Impact Guarantees: The Next Evolution in Outcomes-Based Funding
A new take on collaborative funding in Singapore could help outcomes-based funding go more mainstream.
How Venture Capital Can Join the ESG Revolution
Venture capital has lagged behind on adoption of ESG practices. Here are four ways they can become more mainstream.
Understanding the Risks of Nonparticipation in Philanthropy
How philanthropic organizations can better understand the degree to which they include beneficiaries in their decision-making processes, how contextual considerations shape participation, and where problems and opportunities lie.
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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.