Philanthropy

If funders want “less talk and more walk” in the field of systems change, it’s time they started funding small, locally led organizations.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s new report, State of Nonprofits in 2023: What Funders Need to Know, reveals that the inability to invest in support systems for staff is the primary challenge facing nonprofits today, according to nonprofit leaders themselves.

To fight the battle against hunger, nonprofits can advocate for meaningful change in our societal structures.

The Supreme Court ruling on race-conscious admissions encourages students to leave out core parts of who they are, writes Carina Cruz, a college access counselor.

The law, which bans abortion at 12 weeks and requires two in-person clinic visits, will undercut the state’s access as an abortion haven for the South.

In the broader nonprofit sector, a capital chasm — sometimes called the “missing middle” — exists between early-stage organizations and those ready to scale their proven models. That chasm is…

Since violent conflict broke out in Sudan in late April 2023 more than 700 people have been killed, over 5,000 injured, and the already precarious humanitarian situation has worsened.

Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman shares the first principles on artificial intelligence (AI) that will be used to guide the foundation’s use of AI.

How public, for-profit, and civic organizations working to address the same city-wide social challenge can find a common starting point.

Why should funders adopt decolonising frameworks and practices? Obsolete strategies to Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) have worked to erase the voice of girls, women, Indigenous people, LGBTQI+ (and other marginalised groups) from the ……

During the pandemic, I dove headfirst into the great wide world of podcasts. Since then, I’ve listened to tens of thousands of hours across a variety of subjects. Here are…

In 2004 during the early days of the Rogers Family Foundation, Brian Rogers would sit in his office on College Avenue in Oakland reading and writing reports. He’d grown increasingly frustrated in…