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Drawing on interviews with its grantee partners involved in Hurricane Sandy recovery work, this report from the North Star Fund presents the largely unacknowledged role that community-based organizations—especially activist groups—played in the immediate aftermath of the storm and includes recommendations and priorities for moving forward with recovery and building long-term resiliency.

The D5 Coalition annual report highlights tools and resources, recently completed research, and approaches that can help foundations and philanthropic organizations advance diversity, equity and inclusion.

This interactive data platform defines what "democracy funding" means for philanthropy, establishes a baseline for such funding, and allows users to quickly grasp, in terms of both major trends and detail, who is funding what and where, across the nation.

This paper examines board functioning in relation to both legal and broader conceptions of accountability, and empirical evidence from over 5,100 nonprofits in the Urban Institute National Survey of Nonprofit Governance . It discusses areas of board weakness and considers different approaches to improving them, including regulation, self-regulation, policy-oriented strategies, and management-oriented strategies.