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Participatory Grantmaking Is Your Future
Funders must abandon top-down, one-sided funding approaches in favor of partnerships with the disability community.
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Fresh Water From Light
A young architect is tackling water scarcity with a household desalination device.
Sharing to Save the Planet
Civic science platform ISeeChange mobilizes communities to take action on climate change.
Preventing the Next Pandemic
Governments, academia, civil society, philanthropists, and the private sector must jointly take five priority actions to stop the global spread of disease.
The Promise of Outcomes Funds
Efforts at improving global education too often fail to have the desired impact. Outcomes funds can help shift funders and policy makers toward the most effective approaches.
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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.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.