Do and Learn, Don’t Wait and See
Ten questions to help unsure funders get unstuck and take strategic action now.
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An Abundance of Capacity
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
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Giving That Supports Community-Focused Climate Solutions
How have nonprofits adapted their strategies to help mitigate climate change? How can donors best support climate solutions? Leaders from the One Acre Fund and The Nature Conservancy discuss how climate change is shaping their work and ways philanthropy can step in with catalytic funding. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360
Recombination as Rebirth
In this time of crisis, nonprofits may be forced into mergers, acquisitions, and sunsets. A few principles will help leaders make the most of a difficult moment.
Who Should Pay for ESG Infrastructure?
Foundations and nonprofits built the tools that companies now use for ESG reporting, brand credibility, and risk management. Is there a funding model for maintaining these tools so they remain credible, transparent, and financially viable?
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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.