This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New Haven-based Heron Foundation went through its own reckoning moment in 2019. “We realized we couldn’t achieve our core mission of helping communities help themselves if we weren’t deeply listening…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The CEP report New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support highlights one of the most vexing paradoxes in the modern nonprofit sector: despite an understanding of the benefits…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Japan, manufacturing facilities use “green curtains”—living panels of climbing plants—to clean the air, provide vegetables for company cafeterias, and reduce energy use for cooling. A walk-to-school program in the United…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a longtime advocate for multiyear general operating support (GOS), reading CEP’s recent report, New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support, was a sobering and frustrating experience.…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors created the framework for impactful philanthropy based on input from more than 50 foundation partners. • How can you use a tool like this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the consent of our adventurous board, we developed a grantmaking process that simplifies and streamlines paperwork, which is one of the seven pillars of our trust-based philanthropy approach. We…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If it feels like you’re being inundated with requests for charitable donations, it’s not your imagination. Suddenly we’re not just being asked to give through direct mail and phone solicitations;…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a global community, we have become reasonably adept at describing the need for change “out there” in the world. But we are not so good at addressing the change…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the boundaries between business and charity become increasingly blurred, many nonprofits are considering how to pursue their mission through revenue-generating activities rather than relying on philanthropic contributions alone.1 This trend…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Eleven years ago, after permanently residing in the United States since 1993, I became an American citizen. Naturalization is a lengthy process. And as an adult, to “absolutely and entirely…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The case is closed: general operating support (GOS) is both good for grantees and communities and favored by funders. Further, in CEP’s recent study, New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Studying world politics, I am exposed to many political scientists’ esoteric explanations of why certain systems of governance functioned better than others. Yet there must be something – some underlying…