A Defense of Story
Stories can be overly simple, even deceptive. But more often than not, they help surface and illuminate truth, and embracing their complexity offers deep reward.
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Grassroots Change
To create long-lasting social change, organizations and programs must become embedded in the local community.
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Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy
Funders are devising new approaches that account for the impact that
social issues have on people’s health.
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Illuminating the Health Equity Challenge
The causes of health inequity are diverse and entwined; the solutions will be as well.
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Partnering with Philanthropy in Native America
Community-based organizations, philanthropic institutions, and federal agencies—all are needed to support and sustain revitalization efforts.
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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.