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How funders can best support place-based initiatives.
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Toward a Bolder Philanthropy
Philanthropists must support big, difficult, and politically sensitive issues that government, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and other actors are unable or unwilling to address.
Can Individual and Institutional Donors Be Friends?
These groups' perspectives are closer than most think—and it’s good news for philanthropy.
Challenging the Orthodoxies of Philanthropy
Are traditional assumptions about how we “do” philanthropy preventing us from finding new and better ways of working?
Like the Vacuuming, Nonprofit Work Is Women’s Work
If we want the nonprofit sector to innovate, we need to acknowledge the gender gap between nonprofits and the private sector.
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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.