Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 28, 2024

But when we look at philanthropy in the US and Europe, the list of private foundations that have a primary focus on SME growth is extremely small, just over a dozen. A clear opportunity exists for philanthropic capital to unlock this kind of private and public sector capital, through targeted investments. Where to Invest?

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Despite the accolades, these artists were low-income and eligible for our program, which means they’d fallen through the severed US social safety net. Could a regular public program of guaranteed income, especially for artists, make a difference? That is the critical policy question that our pilot intended to explore.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 27, 2025

Concepts like theories of change, outcomes versus outputs and long-term social return are critical, but they’re also abstract, time-intensive and often buried in messy or siloed data. It empowers staff to step away from screens and spreadsheets and do what AI can’t: amplify the mission through social connection and community.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 13, 2025

Campbell Chair in Fundraising Leadership at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Heist earned his master’s degree in Philanthropic Studies from the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. It was funded with grant support from the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy William C. rail-container).hide();

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 3, 2025

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 25, 2025

Elroy Serrao , CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons This article is the second of a three-part series: Saving Philanthropy: Creating Rules of the Road for Donor-Advised Funds. Sometimes lost in the conversation are intermediaries like private foundations and donor-advised funds (DAFs). trillion in assets. What About DAFs?

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 16, 2025

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

What do community organizing calls for police abolition and recent federal public investments like the American Rescue Plan Act (more popularly known as ARPA) have in common? Public investments like ARPA have reawakened a commitment by politicians to use our dollars to improve access to quality housing, schools, and jobs.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Review your communications and communications policies to ensure that they do not create unnecessary risks of copyright or trademark infringement, defamation, fraudulent misrepresentations, or political campaign intervention. Dissatisfied employees heighten legal risks. The factsheet What Is Lobbying Under the 501(h) Election?

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 23, 2025

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 2, 2025

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 6, 2025

I have been a managing director, a board member, a board president, a consultant to nonprofits, and taught college courses on nonprofit management and policy at several Chicago universities. After all, 501c3 nonprofits cannot endorse candidates for public office. You could say that this is by design.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2025

The Communications Networks 2025 Pulse Polls | Survey #1 offers a snapshot of how nonprofits and foundations are adjusting their communications strategies under the new administration. Despite the challenges facing social sector communications teams, Gibbons believes the current flood the zone strategy, while extraordinary, wont last forever.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 22, 2025

abdiel lpez: When thinking about what needs to change to advance the just transition, we must look also at the culture and the structures that philanthropy upholds, specifically in their day-to-day programming and the way they connector notwith grantees, investees. And they write all of that in their investment policy statement, for example.

Public and Social Policy 119

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 24, 2025

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Candid

DECEMBER 2, 2024

They knew those most affected by the problems we face also held the solutions, so they worked to democratize the sector and make philanthropy accessible to everyday people. Most traditional, larger foundations offer grants only after applicants have successfully secured funding from another source.

Public and Social Policy 98

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As a leader in the space, RRI plays a coordinating role as one of the fields system orchestrators , and the Skoll Foundation has deepened our understanding of land tenure by supporting and learning from their work. Engage government in collective action to create conditions for favorable tenure rights policies.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

Daffodil was co-founded in 2024 by Sarah Angello, Dinesh Nadar, and Blue Thomas, who bring years of experience working together at the intersection of technology, philanthropy, and financial systems. Daffodil is a Blackbaud Social Good Startup Partner. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("pid",

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2025

During COVID, philanthropy showed what it could be at its best: nimble, coordinated, unusually brave. Foundations, so often chided for sluggishness, moved with a kind of moral velocity. A few bold leaderslike the Skoll Foundation, Rippleworks, and the John D. Grant restrictions lifted. Frontline workers prioritized.

Philanthropy 125

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 12, 2025

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Nonprofit governance and management 130

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

Image credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com Last month, Deepak Bhargava became president of the JPB Foundation, which has over $2.8 It made me attuned as to what it was to feel like you don’t belong and how important it is to create social structures and a culture that is deeply welcoming and inclusive for everybody.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 3, 2025

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

These leaders are transforming public systems from within—finding champions in government, building cross-sector coalitions, persisting through setbacks, and continuing to deliver impact for the communities they work with. Philanthropy’s Path Forward In moments of uncertainty, the world needs clear pathways. Fund with abundance.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 19, 2025

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

From climate catastrophe and forced migration to economic inequality to the erosion of democracy and the rise of political violence—these deep problems are also opportunities for major advances in progressive narratives and policies. Where does social justice philanthropy fit in? Some foundations are stepping up to this reality.

Philanthropy 139

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. Amara Enyia: Your work in the space of reparative philanthropy is groundbreaking.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: Rod Long on unsplash.com A recent report on climate justice funding finds that many foundation leaders are of two minds when it comes to the climate crisis—the crisis is “urgent” yet easily put off for another day. How many of those 29 leaders expect their foundations to begin acting on the “extremely urgent” crisis?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As close observers of the world of family giving, we are convinced this is an historic moment for families and the future of philanthropy as well. What makes this moment perhaps the most notable time in the history of family philanthropy is that it is a time of crucial choices—with huge potential consequences and opportunities.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

By 1948 Cafritz had amassed such wealth from real estate development that he incorporated a foundation bearing his and his wife’s name. It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that grantmaking should rely on professional staff to make expert decisions, reflecting philanthropy’s move from a values-based tradition to a more technocratic bent. But even a decade ago, the limitations of what came to be called “ strategic philanthropy ” were evident. Just Trust Whom?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies, and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system. Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms. To create change in such a system requires systems leadership.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 1, 2025

The nonprofit sector employs over 12 million people , but Capitol Hill dismisses our policy power. Every voice we don’t amplify is a policy we can’t pass. Authoritarians understand narrative as warfare: Control the story, and you control the policy. Control the policy, and you control the people. We contributed $1.4

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Philanthropy comes in many forms. For over a decade, Black Philanthropy Month has been a time of reflection on Black philanthropists’ contributions—including the contributions of Black liberation movements. It also encourages me to rethink the definition of philanthropy itself. Image Credit: Diva Plavalaguna on pexels.com.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By Theodore Lechterman & Johanna Mair The field of social entrepreneurship often takes its normative foundations for granted. Social enterprises seek to address social problems using business strategies. Understanding how social innovation directly affects people’s lives is essential.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 12, 2015

Lauren Lawson-Zilai is the director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International , a social enterprise that provides job training to nearly ten million people a year through the sale of donated clothes and household goods. There are 165 local Goodwill headquarters (agencies) in the U.S.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

To support South African democracy, philanthropy faces two challenges. One is that many foundations, under the guise of philanthropic pluralism , have supported a status quo that has harmed South Africa’s Black majority. Does Western philanthropy make a positive difference? Today, that democracy is fraying.

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