Philanthropy’s Sputnik Moment
A new toolkit to reinforce and reinvent American research science in a time of crisis.
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Do and Learn, Don’t Wait and See
Ten questions to help unsure funders get unstuck and take strategic action now.
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Democratizing the Economy
An excerpt from The Democratic Marketplace on "predistribution" and freedom.
Impact Accounting Has an Equity Problem
Is water in Sweden really 25 times more valuable than water in Mauritania?
An Abundance of Capacity
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
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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.