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    Small Grants Are Key to Supporting the Work of Young Conservationists

    Mongabay Dec 1, 2025

    In a meeting room in a head office in London, a handful of early-career conservationists from around the world sat in a circle on the floor to share their challenges…

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    Lessons for GivingTuesday: Taking Bold Action to Strengthen Democracy

    Nonprofit Quarterly Dec 1, 2025

    Nonprofits across the country are ramping up their GivingTuesday campaigns—but we can’t pretend we’re operating in normal times. The Trump administration and its allies in Congress continue to pursue massive funding cuts,…

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    Understanding the Future of Philanthropy in Japan

    Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Nov 21, 2025

    After more than a year of ongoing side discussions about philanthropy in Japan, the International House of Japan (IHJ), United States-Japan Foundation, American Friends of the International House of Japan…

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    What Does the Path Forward Look Like for Global Health Philanthropy?

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Nov 20, 2025

    Since January 2025, government cuts to international development assistance have closed clinics, cut jobs, and left communities without care, underscoring the need for global health philanthropy to step up. The toll…

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  • Going Beyond Grantmaking: How Funders Can Partner with Grantees

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Nov 20, 2025

    Beyond-the-check support going beyond grantmaking is a core practice within trust-based philanthropy. Yet the question of how to do it — creatively, strategically, and with care — often goes unanswered. From 2019…

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    The State of Disaster Philanthropy: Strengthening Strategies for Impact

    Center for Disaster Philanthropy Nov 19, 2025

    Today, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the 12th edition of the State of Disaster Philanthropy (SODP), which explores 2023 giving and practices, how philanthropy is responding to current changes…

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  • Practicing Democracy in the Philanthropic Sector

    Justice Funders Nov 18, 2025

    Eight people showed up for a zoom call in February of 2023, some of them longtime friends and co-conspirators, others strangers. All shared a commitment to serve on the inaugural…

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  • Accountability in Grantmaking: Why Focusing on Outcomes May Actually Hinder Nonprofits’ Impact

    Nonprofit AF Nov 17, 2025

    Last week, I was in Toronto facilitating a conversation on equitable grantmaking with a group of brilliant colleagues, including several funders and impact investment leaders. During the rise of authoritarianism,…

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  • Relay Grants Provide Trust-Based Funding to Women Nonprofit Leaders of Color

    Exponent Philanthropy Nov 14, 2025

    The Holloway Family Foundation’s Annual Relay Grant is a streamlined, trust-based approach to grantmaking that places funding decisions in the hands of women nonprofit leaders of color. In 2020, several reports…

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  • Supporting Afghan Women: Action Steps for Funders

    Alliance Magazine Nov 14, 2025

    While the world moves from one breaking news story to the next, the voices and lives of Afghan women are quietly disappearing, cut off from public life, and the futures…

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  • The New Economy: Funders’ Role in Prioritizing Care and Resilience for People and Nature

    Alliance Magazine Nov 13, 2025

    Alliance editor, Kate Balding, speaks to P4NE director, Jo Swinson, and executive director of KR Foundation, Brian Valbjørn Sørensen, to make sense of the New Economy and funders place within…

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  • How New York’s Rural Organizers Are Building Collective Power

    Neighborhood Funders Group Nov 10, 2025

    We launched our New York Rural Organizing Portfolio in June 2024 with an attainable yet impactful goal: raise $15,000 in general operating funds for each of the thirteen organizations featured…

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