The Art of “Muddling Through”
How an emergent funding strategy gave rise to a rapid-learning health system and ultimately became part of a national moonshot to eliminate cancer.
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How Philanthropy Can Help Bridge America’s Political Divide
The imperative to invest in risky collaboration has never been greater.
Three Buckets of Money
It’s more of a desert than a jungle out there.
Investing in Global Refugee and Migrant Integration
George Soros’s $500 million investment announcement following the first-ever UN summit on migrants and refugees sets an example for how all investors could engage in “migrant lens investing."
A Neoliberal Takeover of Social Entrepreneurship?
A model of social entrepreneurship focused on market-based solutions and profit is threatening to crowd out more collaborative approaches.
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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.