Advocacy
How Political Donors Band Together
The ultrarich are teaming up to make politics more partisan.
Tag: Donors
Education
Let’s Create Charter Schools that Strengthen School Districts
Six ways funders can help support quality education for all students and improve communities in the process.
Measurement & Evaluation
Harnessing the Power of Evidence
Better use of evidence and developments in evaluation practice can shift the power dynamic between funders, service-delivering organizations, and service users.
Collaboration
Collaborating after the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Following the largest single act of social media fundraising, the ALS Association was faced with a “good crisis”—and a big challenge.
Collaboration
Creative vs. Transactional Collaboration
Lessons from experiments in nonprofit innovation at 92Y.
Video
Philanthropy & Funding
When Are Big Bets the Right Bet?
When should funders commit to making multi-million dollar grants, and when should they take a more gradual, steady approach?
Education
Want a Better, Safer World? Build a Finance Facility for Education
History proves that big financing ideas can triumph over seemingly insurmountable global challenges.
Review
Philanthropy & Funding
Give and Take
Callahan does an excellent job showing the many ways that major donors' charitable giving overlaps with their political aims, but he could say more about the broader context in which they operate.
Philanthropy & Funding
Ten Ways to Make a Big Bet on Social Change
The world is rich in problems but poor in clear methods to address them. This article offers ten underutilized ways to place a big bet on social change.
Philanthropy & Funding
Don’t Give Big. Instead, Invest Thoughtfully.
This spring, community foundations around the country will host one-day, online giving campaigns for nonprofits in their regions. But the model needs an overhaul if it’s going to benefit more than the community foundations themselves.