Listening for the Beat of Change: Conversational Grantmaking Where Accountability Demands Listening
Today, nonprofit leaders are navigating a challenging and ever-changing political and financial environment. According to the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s [...]
Why Hospitals Should Invest in Climate Actions as a Community Benefit Strategy
Which has a bigger carbon footprint: the airline industry or healthcare? If you guessed healthcare, you’re spot on. Climate change [...]
Nonprofit Marketing Analytics: Which Metrics to Watch and Why
It’s easy to go over budget on marketing without seeing significant results. However, with the right allocation of resources and [...]
Maximize Your Progress: 4 Poor Fundraising Habits to Kick
The best fundraising strategies are constantly changing, adapting to meet new patterns in giving preferences and engagement opportunities. As best [...]
Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance
Unless you measure your nonprofit’s performance, it’s impossible to know where you are succeeding and where you need to focus [...]
Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees
Back in the mid-2010s, I served as chair of the selection committee for the Washington, DC region’s biggest award recognizing [...]
Why Are DAFs So Popular? The Appeal of Donor-Advised Funds
Do you feel like you’ve been hearing about donor-advised funds (DAFs) a lot lately? There’s a good reason for it. [...]
To Complete or Not to Complete? Measuring Community College Student Success
The motivating factors that prompt students to enroll in a community college are as varied and diverse as their academic [...]
Think Big (but Start Small) with Nonprofit Innovation
With advances in technology such as artificial intelligence, automation, and cloud services flooding the marketplace, nonprofits feel the pressure to [...]
The Core Elements of Empathy, Power, and Vulnerability in Grantmaking
We hear about Trust-Based Philanthropy and having a more grantee-centered approach to grantmaking. There was a surge in these perspectives [...]
