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    Building Trust Through Grantee Feedback [Video]

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Mar 23, 2021

    When Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies (RNP), a foundation located in Bangalore, India, gathered feedback from its grantees through the Grantee Perception Report (GPR) in 2020, RNP was rated in the top 1 percent of…

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    How Funders Can Support New Nonprofit Mindsets

    Stanford Social Innovation Review

    It has never been easy to be a nonprofit leader — and it certainly isn’t easy now. Even before the 2016 US election, forces like globalization, the rise of technology,…

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    Ways You Can Support the Movement for LGBTQ Equality in the U.S.

    Equality Federation Mar 22, 2021

    In 2015, same-sex marriage became legal in all 50 states after a historic Supreme Court ruling. Once the balloons deflated and the risers and sound systems from celebrations across the…

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    Strengthening Development Through Local Leadership

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Mar 22, 2021

    The current system of international aid is outdated and ineffective. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the poorest countries were significantly off track to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development…

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    Four Themes to Frame Relief for Low-attention Disasters

    Disaster Relief and Recovery Magazine Mar 19, 2021

    1. Relational Decision-Making + Data Our approach to the “when, where and how” decisions of our work is relational and data-driven. Our starting point is a needs assessment that involves…

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    Could Franchising Work for the Social Sector?

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Mar 19, 2021

    In his January 2019 Stanford Social Innovation Review article, “To Impact Millions, the Social Sector Needs to Scale Scaling Up,” consultant Greg Coussa writes: “The ‘scale sector’—the practices, people, and policies that…

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    How Donors Can Support Native Communities During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Disaster Relief and Recovery Magazine Mar 18, 2021

    How can funders respond?How do we, as funders, continue meeting the ongoing immediate needs of those we serve while supporting community recovery? It is challenging to be flexible as some…

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    Building Strong, Resilient NGOs in India: Time for New Funding Practices

    The Bridgespan Group Mar 18, 2021

    Chronic underfunding of India’s nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) acts as a brake on their ability to grow programs to reach more communities and individuals in need. New research from The Bridgespan…

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    Building Community Resiliency to the Polarization Industrial Complex [Video]

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Mar 18, 2021

    PACE Executive Director Kristen Cambell interviewed Andrew Hanauer, CEO of the One America Movement, a national nonprofit that works to confront toxic polarization and division by equipping faith communities to work…

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    New Approaches Are Needed to Help Formerly Incarcerated People

    Straight Talk on Evidence

    This report discusses findings from a well-conducted randomized controlled trial (RCT) of program services funded by the Department of Justice’s Second Chance Act (SCA) Adult Demonstration Program, aimed at facilitating…

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    Philanthropy and the Environmental Divestment Movement

    Philanthropy In Focus

    Australia is a small country by many standards. But as the world’s single largest exporter of coal — in the minds of those who are tackling dangerous global climate change…

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    The Need for Evidence-based Policymaking

    Straight Talk on Evidence

    In key areas of social policy, the United States has made little progress over many years: The earned income of the bottom 40 percent of the population is almost unchanged…

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