This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Impact investing has the potential to enable every foundation, regardless of size, to pursue its philanthropic mission more effectively. It can help individual donors, families, foundations with few or no…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In our combined 60 years of studying, evaluating, and advising nonprofits, including best-in-class organizations such as Pratham, we have come to understand the qualities that enable scaling efforts to succeed.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In my work, I’ve found that foundations and major donors can gain useful insights by analyzing three fairly simple types of information. Warren Buffett notices a feature of philanthropy that makes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropists are flying blind because little is known about how to donate money well. Some grants to academic scientists create so much administration that researchers are better off without them.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We kept overheads low, boasts Camila Batmanghelidjh in her book about how and why Kids Company, the charity she founded, collapsed in 2015. Perhaps skimping on administrative costs was a false…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “I want to be MacKenzie Scott when I grow up.” That was my first thought when I heard she had donated $10 million to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s (CDP)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For philanthropy to advance equity in all communities, especially low-income communities and communities of color, it needs to be able to understand the demographics of the organizations being funded (and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Systems change! Just saying the words aloud makes me feel like one of the cognoscenti, one of the elite who has transcended the ways of old-school philanthropy. Those two words…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As president and CEO of The Wright Center for Community Health and its affiliated entity, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, I’ve had the great privilege of voluntarily serving alongside 600…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our hypothesis that nonprofits would thrive with longer, larger, and more flexible grants had not only been proven—it defied our expectations. What started as an experiment to reimagine philanthropy has become…
Afi Tengue, VP of Philanthropy & Impact at Giving Compass, and Ashindi Maxton, Executive Director of the Donors of Color Network, discuss the climate justice landscape and the new Climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropic best practices in arts and culture remain underexplored relative to other sectors of private funding. If funders are looking for best practices, it’s easy to become lost amidst varying…