Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of the Omidyar Network, discusses investing in both for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations to scale social impact.
Paul Brest, co-director of Stanford PACS, explains why it is important for funders to fund general operating costs for the organizations they choose to support.
The collapse of New York’s largest nonprofit human services agency is an urgent reminder of the need for funding reform.
Ray Chambers, co-founder of the nonprofit Malaria No More, talks about his experience raising malaria awareness through partnerships and the need for effective collaboration.
Swanee Hunt, founder and chair of Hunt Alternatives Fund, discusses the beginnings of Women Moving Millions, a group of female philanthropists devoted to supporting women’s causes.
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.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
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.
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.
