Philanthropy

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Impact investors and grant makers can learn from each other.

Trust is the societal glue on which our democracy depends.

With current momentum around afterschool and summer learning programs, we are at a unique time for education investors to maximize their reach in a sustainable way. I believe leaders can best leverage…

“Nothing less than a death penalty by social deprivation” is how Stephanie Cacioppo, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, describes solitary confinement. And that is indeed what…

Radically rethinking how we organize and govern for social impact.

The Conference Board recently released a report entitled From Crisis to Opportunity: Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy in 2023, which summarizes how corporate giving and volunteering played out in 2022, what expectations are for 2023, and how giving levels and strategies are determined.

Racial equity can’t be thought of solely as a funding priority; it must be a critical component of philanthropy’s own way of being.

Local social enterprises need support for scaling up.

For as long as most of us can remember, social enterprises and social movements have sought to disrupt systems from the outside or to make fundamental policy changes from the…