NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2023

In our soon-to-be released strategic plan, we champion community-based organizations and advocate for them in philanthropy. Increasingly, we’re calling ourselves coaches—and not consultants—because we know that organizational development that fails to center people does not achieve durable impact.

Nonprofit governance and management 116

Nonprofit governance and management Organizational Development Leadership Governance 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

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. It is a failure of ambition.

Philanthropy 78

Philanthropy Organizational Development Foundations Technology 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 11, 2023

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.

Civil Society 120

Civil Society Environmental Public and Social Policy Governance 120

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2023

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.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Health Collaborations Foundations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Recently, as Borealis Philanthropy fellows, we launched pay equity pilots with a number of progressive nonprofits. Rather, this is deep organizational development work. The Complex Tensions of Nonprofit Pay Equity Co-author Mala Nagarajan has worked on pay equity with social justice organizations for seven years.

Psychology 128

Psychology Values Governance Culture 128

MNA Association

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy and Sector Voice The Executive Director works actively with nonprofits, policymakers, philanthropy, government, business, media, and the public at large to advance public awareness and understanding of and support for the nonprofit community in Montana.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 76

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Public Policy 76

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

We were getting calls from other sectors: education called us, arts called us, philanthropy called us. We want to be really intentional about creating leaders that have a deep equity and justice background, that have core competencies, that understand organizational development, who can be in community with each other.

Civil Society 98

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Community Development 98

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

By definition, board members should be counted on to make sacrificial gifts or at least to consider the organization a high priority for their philanthropy. Board service is actually the opposite of pay.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Leadership Nonprofits 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

Or just shifted more toward philanthropy and supporting leadership? KF: These are established schools of personal and organizational development. It just seems like a big commitment, which I don’t see a lot in philanthropy. Leadership is a process that I engage in, and not necessarily who I am. KF: It was a process.

Medical 119

Medical Health Leadership Healthcare 119