It’s no secret that millions of mission-related hours are lost every year navigating cumbersome grant application processes. To identify the needed top changes, a survey was launched by Laura Solomons,…
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Across America, there is a battle being fought in state houses and school boards over the future of our society, and whether we will continue to build on progress to…
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Click here for more.From a global pandemic to the recent invasion of Ukraine, globally impactful disasters are an increasingly frequent part of our reality, and thus an important factor as funders consider grantmaking…
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Click here for more.Repeat after me: “It’s Not Your Money.” One more time: “It’s Not Your Money.” If you work in the world of philanthropy, have you ever said that sentence out loud…
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No policy is ever really neutral. All involve value judgments (such as whether a nonprofit’s administrative costs are “legitimate” expenses) and all can and should be evaluated in terms of…
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Many researchers want their research to influence public policy. Many charitable donors also want to influence / improve public policy and often fund the production of research and other activities…
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Click here for more.Philanthropy has never had an opportunity like we now have to make a meaningful difference in the lives and futures of America’s youngest kids. Big, private investments in early childhood…
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Click here for more.The last two-plus years of pandemic life have been an exercise in dodging curve balls, and adjusting and re-adjusting, with calls on philanthropy to step up to meet the social…
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Click here for more.Of all the obstacles to human dignity, creativity, and survival, the accelerating impact of the climate crisis is one of the most existential. The result of burning carbon and other…
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Click here for more.Climate change alarm bells have been ringing for decades, but only more recently has the crisis begun to unfold at a breathtaking pace with far-reaching impacts that leave no community untouched. As the…
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The City of Chicago is the undisputed gun violence capital of America. Last year, the city saw nearly as many shootings and killings as New York and Los Angeles combined,…
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In May, the PEAK Rocky Mountain and PEAK Northern California chapters hosted a panel discussion where grants professionals shared how their respective organizations are operationalizing the principles of trust-based philanthropy.…