Executive Transitions: Grantmakers and Nonprofit Leadership Change
Publication date:
03/2006
... Where is the fine line between helping and intruding? What interventions work? And how can a grantmaker play a ...
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Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation
Publication date:
11/2008
... a strategy. In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely ...
Mapping Change: Using a Theory of Change to Guide Planning and Evaluation
" What are we doing, and why do we think it's going to make a .....
Saying Yes/Saying No: Strengthening Your Decision-Giving Skills
Publication date:
06/2004
... than they can recommend for funding. Decision making about what to fund is challenging and so is decision giving to ...
Grantees Report Back: Helpful Reporting and Evaluation Processes
Publication date:
01/2011
... grantees experience reporting and evaluation processes? What makes them most helpful? How can foundations improve ...
The Transformative Power of Philanthropy
Release Date:
05/09/2013
... I’ve been contributing a series of posts about what we’ve learned about strategic philanthropy over the ...
Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers
Release Date:
08/06/2013
... week, the city of Richmond, Calif., will be the first of what will ultimately be many cities to begin taking bold ...
Simplify: A New Data-Sharing Process for Funders & Grantees
Publication date:
01/2014
What makes a nonprofit successful? Specifics vary, but one ...
Foundation Assets Are Climbing, but Grants Are Still Competitive
Publication date:
03/2014
... downturn, and that’s putting a damper on their giving. What it’s not doing though: crimping ambitious new ...
Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals
Release Date:
12/15/2015
... also influence positive social functions like kindness and what might be called charitable giving in humans. Such a ... or anxiety-related disorders, Platt said. " What we're trying to do is both...
Guide to Collaborative Philanthropy
Publication date:
10/2016
... group, notes template, and detailed description of what support we provide in which circumstances . Based on ...
Bessemer Trust's Paul Connolly Wants Better Advice for Wealthy Donors
Release Date:
01/04/2017
... 2016 election just weeks behind us, it is still uncertain what the Trump administration’s influence on philanthropy ...
Sarah Eagle Heart of Native American Philanthropies Clarifies Debate Around Labels for Indigenous Communities
Release Date:
02/02/2017
... first nations? Are you Native American? American Indian? What 's the right label? Sarah Eagle Heart of Native American .....
Avila Kilmurray, Global Fund for Community Foundations, Talks About Philanthropy Outside North America
Release Date:
06/08/2015
... America In many ways, it's been a bit of a hidden story, what 's going on in the global south, and indeed in Eastern .....
Whitney Biennial Artists Take A Hard Look At America, And Find Ways To Connect
Release Date:
03/23/2017
... creativity and sometimes a reflection of our culture. What moods and themes did curators find when putting together ...
Patient Voices: Childhood Cancer
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... cope with a disease they can hardly understand? And what happens to a family after losing a child to cancer? ...
New Report from PNY and Partners Examines Philanthropy’s Role in Hurricane Sandy Recovery
Release Date:
10/28/2014
... report reveal details about who provided funding and for what purposes, which organizations received support, and ...
The Three Vs for Voter Engagement: Validators, Volunteers and Visibility
Release Date:
08/26/2022
... but turnout slumped in the 2021 general election. What did we learn from this work in 2021? Put simply, ... and 86,500 of us had our voting sites changed, the need for nonpartisan accurate voter education...
Don’t Forget the Small Guys
Release Date:
07/19/2010
During the current recession, several grantmakers have decided to fund larger and more-established nonprofits, rather than invest in newer, smaller, and “riskier” ones. In our latest blog post, Miguel Bonilla, the Director of Strengthening New York...
How Philanthropy Can Scale Away S.V.
Release Date:
08/23/2010
In our latest blog post, Lisa Turngren, President of the Frank and Ruth E. Caruso Foundation, offers a unique way of looking at one of our most pervasive social issues—one which suffered a recent funding setback here in New York—and suggests that a...