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Supporting and strengthening small business owners can help increase economic opportunity in communities of color, building family and community wealth.
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Four successful strategies to mitigate the effects of a restrictive funding policy that the Trump administration reinstated.
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Sesame Workshop, Winner of 100&Change Grant Competition, Discusses What’s Next
A conversation with MacArthur Foundation "big bet" winner Sesame Workshop.
Building an Inclusive Economy by Supporting Entrepreneurs of Color
The US economy must change so that all Americans can shape its direction and benefit from its growth. Foundations can help lead the way through investment.
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How Social Innovation Can Fight Terrorism
An excerpt from Compassionate Counterterrorism highlights development-based interventions that have deterred terrorist recruitment.
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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.
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Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.