Nonprofit Trends

As schools head into the final quarter, exhausted teachers and administrators are completing their third consecutive year disrupted by the pandemic. Assessments and other year-end data will provide a more…

As part of a global company, Ford Fund wanted its employee volunteering options to span the globe, too. Here’s how they put trust at the heart of the process. To…

At Feedback Labs, we love hearing stories of how nonprofits and foundations have implemented feedback and we want to share those stories with our community to inspire and give helpful…

Foundation behavior is notoriously hard to change, and foundations are better at getting nonprofits to change than at changing themselves. The survey results are encouraging. A significant majority of respondents…

Many of us, whether trained evaluators, researchers, program staff or volunteers, have never questioned how or why we collect (or perhaps fail to collect) demographic data. This type of data…

From monetary donations to in-kind gifts, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sponsors provide critical sources of funding and cross-marketing for countless nonprofits, making them a cornerstone of the nonprofit world. However,…

Power imbalance is pervasive in our sector, as ubiquitous as hummus, though not nearly as delicious. There is always asymmetry in power when one party holds resources that another party…

In the United States, 92% of public library funding comes from local sources, and there are no national standards that determine what libraries can and cannot do. The result of…

Air pollution has grave consequences — the World Health Organization estimates it kills 7 million people a year. Indeed, recent research suggests closer to 9 million people died from exposure to air…

The world is changing, and it’s changing fast. More companies are committing to emissions reductions but still struggle to measure and verify the impact from corporate headquarters to global operations…

The Covid-19 pandemic upended many of the ways we live and work—but some of these changes have been positive. For example, 2020 saw communities banding together to help neighbors in…

Those of us who practice, fund, commission, and teach the nascent discipline of social design agree without hesitation on a couple of things: People who experience this type of design…