When organizations treat their fundraisers as quota machines rather than relationship architects, they tell the fundraiser ...
I had a mandate to create an investment portfolio wholly devoted to impact that would not sacrifice returns. After a decade, it outperformed its benchmarks of traditional market indexes and ...
John Washington’s How to Close a Camp explores the contemporary growth of immigrant detainment facilities under the Trump ...
When a nonprofit I founded in 1990 saw success in Boston, we were able to grow that nonprofit to two additional cities, Philadelphia and Hartford. In doing so, we encountered a host of ...
Do and fund work that raises the bar, solves the problem, and pursues equity. As Kevin Starr has put it, if the solution is not good enough, it should not scale. Create solutions with the public ...
For much of their history, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been profoundly underfunded. Charged with educating generations of Black leaders while navigating segregation, ...
One of the most fundamental distinctions we tend to make in US philanthropy is between individual and institutional donors. Individual donors include both wealthy philanthropists and millions of ...
Good missions don’t automatically become good results. Seven self-imposed burdens most often separate the two, and senior leaders can dismantle them.
Many organizations endeavored to institute structural changes to racial equity efforts following the morbid booster shot effect of George Floyd’s murder on stagnant national conversations about race.
After all, something must be better than nothing? However, misguided or ill-conceived innovation aimed at helping those in ...