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  • How to Improve Volunteer Programs By Utilizing Technology

    VolunteerMatch Apr 24, 2023

    Your volunteer program enables you to fulfill your mission, and software can improve your efforts. Leverage technology to improve your program with these tips.

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  • Funders Can Support Intentional Systems Change

    FSG Apr 24, 2023

    How funders can think more strategically about how they use grantee learning cohorts as a tool for systems change.

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  • The Latest Value of Volunteer Time Based on 2022 Data

    Independent Sector Apr 23, 2023

    Independent Sector, with the Do Good Institute, announced that the latest value of a volunteer hour is estimated to be $31.80 — a 6.2% increase since 2021.

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  • How Teenagers are Generating Safer Spaces for Black Girls

    Ms. Magazine Apr 22, 2023

    Nearly half of Black women report anxiety when walking alone at night, according to a poll from the Gallup Center for Black Voices. These safety issues plague communities where many Black…

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  • Change Must Address Root Causes

    Skoll Foundation Apr 22, 2023

    Covid-19 has been far more than a public health crisis. The ripple effect of the pandemic, and our uneven response to it, has triggered economic crisis, deepened inequalities, exploited our…

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    How Donors Can Maximize Impact for Fighting Climate Change

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Apr 22, 2023

    As donors move into the climate space for the first time, the options can be overwhelming. The climate landscape is exceedingly technical and multifaceted, with myriad possible solutions vying for…

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  • How Organizational Strategy Can Advance Philanthropic Effectiveness

    Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Apr 22, 2023

    Over the last 25 years, the GEO community has led the field of philanthropy in exploring effective grantmaking. While our collective understanding of what “effective” means is always evolving, so are the ways that we help transform philanthropic culture and practice.

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    The Problem With Billionaire Philanthropists As ‘Climate Experts’

    NCRP Apr 21, 2023

    Fifty-three years ago, on April 22nd, 1970, the first official Earth Day was observed. Twenty million Americans took to the streets in a collective effort to bring attention to decades…

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  • Bolstering a Robust Social Economy with Social Impact Measurement

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Apr 20, 2023

    In theory, social impact measurement should be a powerful tool to improve the European social economy. It can help individual organizations set realistic objectives; monitor, learn from, and improve their…

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    Philanthropists and Nonprofits Should Think Differently About Scale

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Apr 19, 2023

    The challenges that nonprofits take on — hunger, disease, climate change, armed conflict, racial injustice, gender inequality, and human rights abuses, to list just a few — are amongst the…

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  • Putting the Spotlight on the Future of Social Innovation

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Apr 19, 2023

    The 2021 Frontiers of Social Innovation Conference: “People, Power, Resources: Enacting an Equitable Future” featured senior leaders of nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, academia, business, and government addressing how the social innovation community can…

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  • Leveraging Cross-sector Investments: Roles for Communities, Companies, and Funders

    FSG Apr 19, 2023

    How three key groups of stakeholders can help realize the potential of federal investment in a new wave of societal programs.

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