Lessons from a Development Impact Bond
A results-based financing program to improve educational access and achievement in India shows the importance of data-driven decision-making and adaptive leadership.
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How Grantmaking Can Create Adaptive Organizations
Philanthropists should create collaborative relationships with grantees that cultivate critical thinking, learning, and adaptation.
Social Impact Bonding
In Belgium, leaders of a nonprofit are using a pay-for-success mechanism to fund a program for young migrant job seekers.
Terms of Investment
A shift in the language used to describe and report social impact reflects the influence of an elite group of financial professionals.
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Does Philanthropy Threaten Democracy?
We should be more concerned about foundations’ outsized role in education policy.
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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.