Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers
In an “ecosystem” approach, different theories of change reinforce and strengthen each other.
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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers
As the world of work is reshaped by AI, there are opportunities within the critical, fast-growing care sector to enable and support a workforce facing acute shortages.
New Data on Racial Justice Grants Should Alarm—and Motivate—Education Philanthropy
After myriad funder press releases and pledges, both racial equity and racial justice grantmaking dropped significantly between 2018 and 2021.
What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts
Is it possible for modern capital fundraising to be grounded in socially just principles?
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A Swiss Army Knife for Impact
An excerpt from Scaling Altruism on creating a business plan for nonprofit growth
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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.