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Why Funders Should Go Meta

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Rather, philanthropies should prefer to fund meta-issues—i.e., Let’s take an example: psychology. If you were a funder in 2012 who believed strongly in academic psychology, you could have put your money into, say, 100 psychology experiments. By Stuart Buck & Anna Harvey. This is true at two levels.

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Thinking About Donors as Customers

Bloomerang

Like philanthropy, customer service is uniquely American. Innovative fundraising researcher Adrian Sargeant, co-director of the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy, says, “Nonprofits are a means to an end for the donor. Donor Cultivation. Customer Service. Are they the same, similar, or unrelated? This is an important question.

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To Build Narrative Power for Reparations, We Need Infrastructure

NonProfit Quarterly

These narratives not only evoke emotions that affect our behavior—they also help directly shape our public policy priorities. Richeson, “Disrupting Beliefs in Racial Progress: Reminders of Persistent Racism Alter Perceptions of Past, But Not Current, Racial Economic Equality,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , 47, no.