The traditional model of community development finance is limited by market conservatism and a focus on scale, rather than local control. We need a new paradigm that prioritizes impact over scale, emphasizes flexible and creative financing strategies, and empowers community voice. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Center for Community Investment, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
In a world of increasing complexity and polarization, system orchestrators drive collective action to achieve outsized impact.
We are called to nurture the wisdom and presence required to accompany endings with grace, trusting that from these transitions, new life will find its way into being.
Collaborative funding models must reach beyond initial funding to build long-term strategies for sustainability, growth, and impact.
Systemic transitions require paying attention to organizations and institutions that need to die—and to do the work of conscious closing with responsibility, kindness, and wisdom.
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.
