Governance
Why Governance Matters for Stability in Iraq
Donors face an urgent and critical choice: continue to prioritize military initiatives, or invest more in improving governance.
Tag: Grantmaking
Measurement & Evaluation
Measuring What Matters
Five grant performance measurement traps and how to avoid them.
Foundations
A Different Spin on a Market-Based Approach
Even foundations that don’t have an impact investment program can catalyze market-based social innovations by getting creative with how they structure their grants.
Collaboration
From Beneficiaries to Business Partners
There’s a real opportunity for nonprofits to become true business partners with companies they used to approach only for donations.
Economic Development
The Top-Down, Bottom-Up Development Challenge
Do international development projects designed and managed at the grassroots level perform better than those managed from the outside?
Collaboration
Does Your Backbone Organization Have Backbone?
How collective impact efforts—done right—can break through a systemic barrier to nonprofit collaboration.
Foundations
Fostering Systems Change
Five simple rules for foundations seeking to create lasting social change.
Philanthropy & Funding
Show Me the Money
It’s time for more foundations and philanthropists to make $10 million plus grants to social change organizations.
Philanthropy & Funding
Lessons from the Moore Foundation’s Largest and Longest Grants
In 2002 the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation made two long-term mega-grants—one to CalTech for $300 million and the other to Conservation International for $395 million.