Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Harriett Davis from the Chicago Public Library Foundation Tell the Story of Your Mission Not Just What Your Mission is I have found that, as grant applications have gone online and gotten shorter, my strategy has become ever more important: Concise, clean, and emotive storytelling works better than stats and history.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

David Horton Smith, a leading researcher of AVOs and emeritus professor of Sociology at Boston College, prefers the term “grassroots association” and proposes this definition : locally based, significantly autonomous, volunteer-run, formal nonprofit (i.e., But informal hierarchies may be the dominant—if inexplicit—system in place. (Of

Civil Society 110

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Fineberg of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation penned an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle, lamenting philanthropy’s inability to join forces to amplify and expedite impact. We attribute this failure, largely, to sociological hurdles. By Melissa Stevens & Greg Tananbaum.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 2, 2022

It’s in foundations, funds, trusts, and endowments. The Sociological Review, 35 (1), 150-169. [3] The real power of these concepts, in the real world, shows up where the real money is. It’s not in auctions. It’s not even in pledges. It’s in the world of massive donations. Time-inconsistent charitable giving. NBER Working Paper No.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. When the wealthy establish foundations and contribute money to these foundations, they receive tax benefits. Donor-advised funds (DAFs) have exacerbated the problem.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public Policy 124

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater. I thought I was appeasing my family by tagging on sociology. Over 60 percent of our loans are to women business owners, and over 85 percent are to BIPOC owners. But they wanted a harder science.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

by Mohit Mookim, Rob Reich, Nadia Roumani & Ayushi Vig Up for Debate: Should Foundations Increase Their Payouts During Big Crises? How Can Philanthropy Help Rehabilitate US Democracy? How Civil Society Saved the 2020 Census by Arturo Vargas, Gary D. Bass & Karen K. Narasaki (Subscriber-only article. Subscribe to SSIR here.)

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