Moving Toward Multi-Dimensional Democracy
If the Hewlett Foundation’s Madison Initiative wants to strengthen American democracy, it needs to adopt a more multi-layered democratic theory.
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Taking Impact Investing and Accounting Full Tilt
More foundations are deploying a full range of financial investment vehicles to yield positive social and financial returns, and using new tools to track impact data.
Integrated Capital for Social Enterprises
To build a thriving social enterprise sector, we need to rethink the purpose of capital and employ a new strategic funding approach.
Three Ways to Engage Millennial Donors
Nonprofits should offer a wider range of opportunities for donating, facilitating network building, and embracing the complexity of the social problems.
Building Local Currency
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
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.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
Ten Reasons Not to Measure Impact—and What to Do Instead
Impact evaluations are an important tool for learning about effective solutions to social problems, but they are a good investment only in the right circumstances.
The Elitist Philanthropy of So-Called Effective Altruism
The superficially enticing “logic” of effective altruism ultimately leads to a moralistic, hyper-rationalistic, top-down approach to philanthropy that can kill the very altruistic spirit it claims to foster.