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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. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

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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 getting calls from other sectors: education called us, arts called us, philanthropy called us. We don’t have a CEO Circle.

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With a growing realization of philanthropy’s power to shape social change agendas—and an aim to make better use of philanthropic funds and better address structural causes of inequity—these practices rebalance power and place decision-making authority closer to the nexus of change.