When Witness Radio in Kampala, Uganda, faced a government crackdown on groups protesting the World Bank-funded Lubigi Drainage Channel, the organization had to dedicate all its capacity to ensuring its team’s safety. This was…
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Social justice refers to everyone in society having equal access to the social determinants of health including economic stability; education access and quality; health care access and quality; neighborhood and built environment; and social…
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At Compass Working Capital, we recognize that our clients are experts in their own lives. We’re on a mission to end asset poverty for families with low incomes and narrow…
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Berilee Moussata , Feedback Labs | December 16, 2022 How can the feedback field recognize, celebrate and support nonprofits that are……
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A well-known Jewish saying, attributed to Reb Simcha Bunem, an 18th century Hasidic rebbe, says that we should each hold two slips of paper in our pockets. On one should…
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Knowledge of trauma and healing gives funders a way to expand their perspectives, do less harm, and be more effective at systems change.
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For today’s grantmakers to be successful, they need to embrace complexity. The issues we face—from racial injustice to poverty to climate change—are not simple or straightforward. The solutions won’t be either.
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Women’s mental health and wellbeing have traditionally received insufficient attention from the healthcare field, from government, and from philanthropy, creating a gap that needs to be filled if we hope…
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Marina van der Vlies investigates the work of domestic donor Digicel Foundation in PNG and draws some lessons for external development actors.
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One of the most impactful grant programs the Kendeda Fund has ever undertaken was funding our nonprofit partners’ operating reserves. At the end of 2023, Kendeda will be “sunsetting”—winding down three decades…
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In part one of this post, I explored the paradox of false public philanthropic commitments to racial justice amid growing trust-based shifts in philanthropic practices, and the ongoing tension between a charity…
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“For we have, built into all of us, old blueprints of expectations and response, old structures of oppression, and these must be altered at the same time as we alter…