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Five years after passage of the Evidence Act, has it worked? And what’s next?
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Recent research highlights the importance and needs of nonprofit community development organizations. LISC’s Mark Kudlowitz examines how this data informs our work and the need for additional resources to support these groups’ abilities to help communities across the country.
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Instead of preparing for the distant future, philanthropy needs to work to prepare for the here and now.
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Click here for more.Introduction: The Continuous Invitation for Growth For all of us engaged in allocating resources through philanthropy, whether as donors, advisors or foundation staff it’s common to set our north star…
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The SDGs provide a common framework for the many social, economic, and environmental challenges that funders work so hard to address. Following are several reasons that funders in search of…
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Since 2016, The Healing Trust has funded sabbaticals for nonprofit CEO/EDs based on the belief that the healing and wholeness of the people who provide services matters just as much…
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Among nonprofits that serve children in impoverished areas, “child sponsorship” is a tried-and-true fundraising and communications model: The donor receives the name, photo, and biographical details of the individual student…
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Native American communities are often overlooked. Though they represent nearly 3 percent of the US population, they have historically received roughly 0.5 percent of philanthropic dollars. To help address this,…
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The emergence of trust-based philanthropy contrasts with the data- and results-driven approach of strategic philanthropy. How do donors differentiate and reconcile these two approaches? How could trust-based philanthropy help reimagine…
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In 2020, somewhere around 20 million people took to the streets in what researchers believe was the largest movement in U.S. history. During the summer of Black Lives Matter protests following the…
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As students head back to school this fall, funders that care about education and youth need to know: How are kids really doing in the aftermath of COVID-19? And how does…