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The Rise of Trust-Based Philanthropy
Funders are embracing a more equitable way of working with nonprofits by prioritizing collaboration and trust.
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Trust and Scale in Global Social Enterprise Law
Social enterprise law around the world faces a difficult trade-off between cultivating public trust and promoting scale. The sector will benefit by getting clearer on the available options.
Cross-Sector Initiatives Should Start Small
Startup collaboratives often encounter challenges when converting their motivation to do good into action. We have created a minimum viable benefit process for agenda-setting that can help them start up and stay on track. | Open access to this article is made possible by the Center for Integrative Leadership, University of Minnesota.
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Reimagining Funder Accountability
Funders often mistake accountability for compliance. Instead, accountability must be rooted in mutuality, relationships, and power analysis.
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A Framework for Corporate Social Good
Instead of mirroring corporate practices, trust-based philanthropy listens to what communities want and need.
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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.
Collective Impact
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.