Tackling Overhead Together
Grantmakers and nonprofits must come to a mutual understanding of the true costs of change.
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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The Promise of Effective Altruism
The effective altruism movement has the potential to create an aspirational anchor, which may change giving practices over time.
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Reinventing Philanthropy: A Framework for More Effective Giving
Reinventing Philanthropy presents a new look at individual giving, focusing on maximizing actual impact rather than donor gratification.
Transforming the Donor-Grantee Relationship
Effective giving requires strong personal relationships and networks.
Funding the Unforeseen
By creating mechanisms to efficiently plan for uncertainty, philanthropists can ensure that they maintain forward momentum and keep their impact on track.
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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.