Open Philanthropy
We need to bring foundations—and their vast repositories of information on who is doing what in the social economy—out into the open.
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The Key to Capacity Building Is Funding Long-Term Health Not Short-Term Workouts
Philanthropists: Rather than making periodic grants that focus on capacity building, embed capacity-building funding into each and every grant you make.
The Urgent Need for a Leap of Reason
We will need nothing short of quantum, nonprofit sector-wide change to accomplish our important missions in this new era of brutal austerity.
No art? No social change. No innovation economy.
America must invest in art and imaginative capacity.
Changing the Coefficients of Giving
One way to frame efforts to increase charitable giving is to think of it as “changing the coefficients of giving.”
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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.