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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most grants are structured around relatively short-term projects, with limitations on investment in core organizational costs, and often significant transaction costs to both manage and access funding.

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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

Independent Sector is a broad cross-sectoral national membership organization that includes nonprofits, private foundations, and corporate giving programs with a mission to strengthen civil society. We were all in the community and affordable housing space, and we came together to create frameworks for leadership.

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With day-to-day implementation matters occupying the concerns of local leadership, it was as an easy trap for everyone involved in project-based grants to simply divide responsibilities: locally led organizations did implementation, international organizations did the research.