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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

Bloomerang

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You’re part of the problem.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

All of this ultimately requires major changes in the culture, infrastructure, and practices of climate and conservation funders, including international NGOs, private foundations and philanthropies, and government funding agencies. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission. These members will be connected through peer networks, with opportunities to learn, gain resources, collaborate, and form stronger relationships with funders, government leaders, and business affiliate members.

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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.

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In Defense of Big Bets

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Cecilia Conrad Thanks to Kevin Starr for shining a spotlight on how to strengthen big bet philanthropy. We need to grow this group further—not to the exclusion of other types of philanthropy, but to complement it. Second, this framing is a misrepresentation of big bet philanthropy. But many are.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

You helped launch the National Health Plan Collaborative, aimed at reducing racial and ethnic disparities within large health plans, and you also contributed to the first National Healthcare Quality & Disparities reports. Or just shifted more toward philanthropy and supporting leadership? KF: It was a process.

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