How Movement-Accountable Intermediaries Can Change Philanthropy
Leaders of several intermediary organizations share how they envision their role within—and how they ultimately hope to upend—the philanthropic landscape.
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Why Isn’t No-Strings Funding More Common?
Unrestricted grants produce powerful impacts, but we won’t see more of them until we address the hidden barriers.
Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil
A new data-based initiative is helping businesses measure the racial equity of their workforce and take steps to improve it.
The Hollow Prize for Leaders of Color
What looks like racial progress at many nonprofits can set up leaders of color to fail.
The Unintended Consequences of Data Standardization
Building a more equitable, effective, and efficient social sector will require understanding and addressing these risks.
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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.