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‘Tis the season for end-of-year lists. Best albums of 2017? Pitchfork has you covered. Best books? The New York Times Book Review is the place to go. Best movies? NPR...
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Spending Out: One Funder’s 30-Year Journey
Nothing focuses the mind more than knowing your time is limited. Like a small but growing number of foundations, the Kendeda Fund will sunset at the end of 2023, concluding...
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Opportunity in Communities: Developing the Whole Picture
Guest author Elizabeth Clay Roy shares how Opportunity Nation is using data to inspire deeper collaboration among stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
A Moral Imperative
If we care about impact – and I think that those of us working in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector do (why else would we be doing what we do?)…
Why Your Hard Work Sits on the Shelf — and What to Do About It
We’ve all been there. The time when the foundation seems to forget the research project ever happened as soon as the final check is cut. The time when your report...
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We Need Many Champions to Shift Foundation Listening Practices
This is the third in a series of posts contributed by the Feedback Incentives Learning Group, a group of funders convened by Feedback Labs that are dedicated to encouraging peer...
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A Misguided Call for “Reform”
In a toughly-worded op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times headlined “Who Will Watch the Charities?”, Inside Philanthropy founder and editor David Callahan argues that philanthropy “is a world with too…
Imagining a World Where Beneficiary Feedback is the Norm
I was extremely heartened to read CEP’s latest research report, Hearing from Those We Seek to Help: Nonprofit Practices and Perspectives in Beneficiary Feedback. In particular, it was amazing to…
Sustainability of a Warrior: How Organizational Planning Can Occur at Unexpected Moments
I am not a sportswriter. Neither was I capable at 6’3” of even making my high school basketball team, despite expectations to the contrary. Still, my affection for basketball leads...
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What Does It Take to Shift to a Learning Culture in Philanthropy?
If there was ever any doubt that greater openness and transparency could benefit organized philanthropy, a new report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) about knowledge-sharing practices puts it...
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