Making the Money Work
How funders can best support place-based initiatives.
How funders can best support place-based initiatives.
A case for using targeted measures of progress in philanthropy.
The case for investing in the long-term health and well-being of communities, based on what those communities value.
Philanthropists must support big, difficult, and politically sensitive issues that government, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and other actors are unable or unwilling to address.
These groups' perspectives are closer than most think—and it’s good news for philanthropy.
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.
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.
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
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 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.