“We are all very good at the lip service.” What many of us fear and suspect—and what an executive from a leading global brand recently confirmed—is that companies do not…
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As part of our impact investing work, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors recently hosted a webinar that brought together three pairs of organizations–one funder and one supported organization–on their journey to use…
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Click here for more.Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Or so we’ve been told. But what happens when you try building culture through strategy? This is what we attempted to do in the Open Society Foundations’…
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We recently talked to a major donor in his mid-thirties who wrote a five-figure check to a large nonprofit in 2016. He tried to engage more closely with the organization…
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Click here for more.It should be obvious that “who” is doing a job or playing a leadership role informs how the job is done. Who we are as people — the experiences that…
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Click here for more.You can find plenty of stories about boards getting things wrong, but too often boards and board members don’t get credit for some important work they do without even realizing they…
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In the nonprofit world, donors, clients, and other partners are pushing organizations to demonstrate how they are honestly assessing and acting to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) efforts.…
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When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don’t have the option to start their search with Google. If…
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A few months ago, we had the opportunity to attend the 2022 Devex World Conference in Washington, D.C. As we look ahead to the UN General Assembly meetings and other key international…
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Over the years, in our roles as staff at Community Wealth Partners, we’ve spoken and worked with hundreds of Black, Indigenous, and other BIPOC nonprofit leaders. They’ve consistently told us that…
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Click here for more.How do you know if your organization or programs are achieving the impact you seek? How do you figure out how to get better at what you do? Performance measurement…
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Everyone has their own sense of what makes a great leader, informed largely by what they’ve already seen or experienced. However, this “I know it when I see it” approach,…