How Philanthropy Can Help Governments Accelerate a Real Recovery
Philanthropic dollars can play a unique role in catalyzing the public sector’s transformation toward data-driven leadership and decision-making.
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Five For-Profit Practices That Philanthropy Should Avoid
Interviews with millennial donors from the Silicon Valley startup world and conversations with MBA students show a pattern of overreliance on certain for-profit principles in the nonprofit realm, despite potential flaws.
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What’s Next: The Life Cycle of a Pandemic
The philanthropic sector's past experiences with wildfires, hurricanes, 9/11, and other crises helped prepare it for COVID-19, but the unprecedented and ongoing impact of the pandemic raises worries about present and future challenges. SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks to Regine Webster of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Brian Howell of Schwab Charitable. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
How to Make Society’s Risk Capital Riskier
Philanthropy must hire outside the box, write the first check, and take unsolicited applications.
Risks for the Future We Want
Philanthropists must learn from protesters and reimagine the formula for making change on racial justice.
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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.