Impact Philanthropy

The Donors of Color Network is working to get funders to increase their funding to BIPOC-led organizations working toward climate justice.

Social change takes time, and it is never a linear process. It also happens within an ecosystem, and rarely comes down to a single grantee partner or foundation. If we…

As mega-donors shift their attention to the climate crisis, women and people of color are ensuring that organizers providing community solutions are prioritized.

In their recent report, State of Nonprofits 2023: What Funders Need to Know, the Center for Effective Philanthropy is doing all of us an incredible service by lifting up the experiences…

If funders want “less talk and more walk” in the field of systems change, it’s time they started funding small, locally led organizations.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s new report, State of Nonprofits in 2023: What Funders Need to Know, reveals that the inability to invest in support systems for staff is the primary challenge facing nonprofits today, according to nonprofit leaders themselves.

In the broader nonprofit sector, a capital chasm — sometimes called the “missing middle” — exists between early-stage organizations and those ready to scale their proven models. That chasm is…

Why should funders adopt decolonising frameworks and practices? Obsolete strategies to Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) have worked to erase the voice of girls, women, Indigenous people, LGBTQI+ (and other marginalised groups) from the ……

More investment firms are considering how their investment decisions can better support economic and social well-being through gender lens investing (GLI). Firms investing with a gender lens raised $4.8 billion…

The kick-off article to this series shared a startling statistic: Forty percent of the world’s population is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and most of the people in this…

Influencing mindsets and mental models requires identifying what current mental models need to be shifted, targeting priority stakeholders for……

Here are four ways grantmakers can make sure all stages of their funding programs include the voices and perspectives of women.