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  • Can Nonprofits Change Their Business Models Without Changing Who They Are?

    Alliance Magazine Dec 23, 2025

    Nonprofits have faced unprecedented budget cuts this year. To cover their budgets, they may be looking to adopt new revenue streams. But when nonprofits change their business models, are they…

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    Reflecting on Disaster Philanthropy in 2025: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future

    Center for Disaster Philanthropy Dec 19, 2025

    Dear friends, Hope is a familiar word, yet it often evokes many different images and emotions, particularly in the context of reflecting on disaster philanthropy. Hope can feel fleeting and…

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    GivingTuesday 2025: Analyzing Trends and Insights

    Nonprofit Quarterly Dec 19, 2025

    There’s no question that GivingTuesday, the annual fundraising event started in 2012 by the 92nd Street YMCA in New York City and the UN Foundation, has grown into a force…

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  • Higher Education and Philanthropy: Enhancing Purpose and Collaboration

    Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Dec 18, 2025

    Both higher education and philanthropy, including their purposes and roles, is being buffeted by a number of forces and undergoing scrutiny on multiple fronts, even as they seek to meet…

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  • A Retrospective Look at Grantee and Foundation Staff Perceptions: 4 Improvements Over the Years

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Dec 12, 2025

    This year, my attention has been constantly pulled in two directions at once: toward the immediate pressure that nonprofits are facing and toward the broad, sweeping shifts shaping the future of…

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  • What Does Future-Ready Philanthropy Look Like?

    Alliance Magazine Dec 12, 2025

    Two years ago, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) convened a small group of leaders from various global philanthropies and nonprofits in Turin, Italy, for the inaugural convening of its Foresight & Futures…

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    Will Philanthropic Investing Replace Impact Investing?

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Dec 12, 2025

    Sometimes a prosaic AI query produces something that looks more like parody. The other day, I asked Claude to give me the latest definition of “impact investing” versus philanthropic investing…

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  • What Nonprofits Need Most From Funders Right Now: Solidarity, Support, and Courage

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Dec 10, 2025

    I don’t need to tell you that 2025 has been an extremely challenging year. Let me offer up an incomplete list of actions of the current presidential administration that should…

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    How This Urban Agriculture Education Nonprofit Is Weathering Federal Funding Cuts

    Nonprofit Quarterly Dec 9, 2025

    On a humid Friday evening in early September, staff at Farm School New York City (FSNYC), an urban agriculture education nonprofit, called an emergency town hall to share a critical…

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  • Technical and Communications Support Helps Nonprofits Reduce Pollution in Asia

    AVPN Dec 8, 2025

    In Asia, nonprofits are leading the way in developing green tech solutions to address water scarcity and pollution in the region. With technical and communications support from Google.org and the Asian Development…

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    S&P Forecasts Negative Outlook for Nonprofit Colleges in 2026

    Higher Ed Dive Dec 8, 2025

    S&P joins Moody’s Ratings in its gloomy forecast of higher education’s financial prospects in the new year. Moody’s issued a negative outlook for the overall sector in November, citing similar woes: enrollment…

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    What Do Americans Think About Nonprofits and Philanthropy?

    Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Dec 5, 2025

    America is in a period of profound transition — and not just because of changing federal policies under a new presidential administration. Over the past decade, the nation has experienced…

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