Foundations
Foundations Should Invest More in Staffing
Critics of grantmaking practices and advocates of reform should support hiring more staff to improve accountability, return on investment, and equality of opportunity.
Philanthropy & Funding
How Should Philanthropy Meet the Moment?
As philanthropy rallies to the defense of the nonprofit sector, how money is spent is as important as how much.
Environment
How Regular Employees Became Recyclers
Research validates an environmental success story: the institutionalization of recycling in higher education.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Collaborative Funding in India
Four lessons that showcase the strengths of collaboratives—and can help others increase the odds of successful government partnerships.
Business
What Should Businesses Do About DEI?
As the politicization of what should be apolitical anti-discrimination practices grows, the stakes for workers, consumers, investors, and communities have never been higher.
Health
Specialty Health Care Through Local Pharmacies
A partnership-based, digital heath care platform in India is connecting medical specialists to patients who lack access to appropriate care.
Cities
A Model for Place-Based Change
To succeed, place-based neighborhood transformation must have deep roots in the community that support innovative ways to branch to outside resources. Bonton Farms in Dallas, Texas, offers a model of such work.
Philanthropy & Funding
Optimizing 'Big Bets'
What the leaders of Lever for Change have learned about the effectivness of super-sized grantmaking.
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The Challenges Facing Humanitarian Aid Groups Right Now
What’s the impact of recent funding cuts to humanitarian aid? How are organizations reorganizing their critical work with vulnerable communities? Bob Kitchen of the International Rescue Committee and Harriet Carvalho of DAFGiving360 join SSIR editor Barbara Wheeler-Bride to discuss the Trump administration’s unprecedented cuts to foreign aid and how donors can respond. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360
Security
What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?
The polycrisis requires seeding new forms of holistic problem-solving across multiple systems.
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Learning From a Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy
A look at how donor collaboratives have evolved over time, and how fund leaders and donors can sharpen their strategies today.
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Advancing the Impact of Collaborative Funds
The social sector has seen an explosion in collaborative funds over the last 15 years, representing a significant shift in the philanthropic sector. This article series, sponsored by The Gates Foundation, invites practitioners, donors, and advisors to reflect on the impact of collaborative funds—what has worked well? What could work better? And how can the field advance even greater positive change?
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Technology
Should Heartland Cities Become Tech Hubs?
Urbanist Nicholas Lalla offers a playbook for tech-led economic development in midsize cities, avowing that inclusive growth can offset the worsening wealth inequities that the tech sector has helped generate.
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Are Women Donors the Key to Unlocking More Giving?
They own a growing share of wealth, but the sector isn’t yet set up to meet their needs.
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Secret Guides and Weird Waymarkers
When the navigation systems we have relied upon are themselves unmooring, what do we tether to?
Organizational Development
Beyond the Broadcasting Model
Today’s communications landscape demands that social sector organizations move away from a 20th-century broadcasting approach and toward dialogue, relationship-building, and fostering community.
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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement
Health coalitions did the research, coordinated with donors, and secured strong government buy-in. Now, community health workers are finally getting the credit—and pay—they deserve.
