Go Sock-Less
How would you feel about going sock-less for a week when you hadn’t planned your wardrobe for that situation? In July I attended the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers’…
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Making Philanthropy More Business-Like Is a Big Mistake
This post first appeared on India Development Review. A lot of people today talk about how philanthropy needs to be more business-like, about how we need to incorporate principles from...
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Changing the Conversation about Measuring Fundraising Effectiveness
Last week, BoardSource, together with our colleagues at GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals released a new recommended framework for measuring fundraising effectiveness. For funders…
The Impact of Large, Unrestricted Grants on Nonprofits: A Five-Year View
It is one of the ideas with the greatest currency in philanthropy right now: More funders need to make large, unrestricted grants, and then trust nonprofits to use them well....
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More Than Just a Paper: Building Team Culture Through Strategy Design
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Or so we’ve been told. But what happens when you try building culture through strategy? This is what we attempted to do in the Open...
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Philanthropy, Transparency, and Indigenous Relationships
This post by Kate Frykberg originally appeared on GlassPockets as part of its “Road to 100 & Beyond” series. It is re-posted here as part of CEP’s blog series on international...
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We are In a Time of New Suns
The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s report, Much Alarm, Less Action: Foundations and Climate Change, reveals that many non-climate funders see climate change as outside the scope of their mission and...
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Implementing Continuous Improvement at Your Foundation
Last year, one of my clients, a family foundation, realized that one of the biggest barriers to further improving their grantmaking process was their lack of a formal system for...
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Set Your Relationship Up for Success
Guest author Caroline Altman Smith of The Kresge Foundation offers advice for setting expectations to get funder/grantee relationships off on the right foot.
The Pandemic Shifted Priorities for the Communities We Serve, So We Shifted with Them
Two years ago, in September 2019, the World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund awarded its first grants to organizations working to build more inclusive economies for immigrants and refugees...
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