Stop Treating Impact Investing as a Side Hustle
To ensure endowment investments routinely align with mission, foundations need to tear down the wall between CEOs and CIOs.
By Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor
How to Keep Messaging on Track When Every Day Is a Crisis
Nonprofits need to maintain long-term goals while battling short-term emergencies. This communications survival guide can help.
By Nat Kendall-Taylor
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How Nonprofit Jargon Ignores Real Fears of Violence
As they battle weaponized political rhetoric, public safety advocates default to technical terms that confuse the communities they aim to protect.
By Matt Watkins
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Bill Gates Is Wrong: This Is No Time to Back Down on Climate
“Conservation is not a luxury of stable times. It is the test of whether civilization can save itself.”
By Daniel Katz and Anna Veldman
How to Stop Authoritarianism: What Every Funder Needs to Know
This two-step strategy has helped other countries halt democratic backsliding. It can work in the U.S. if we act quickly.
By Joe Goldman, Laleh Ispahani and Deepak Bhargava
Stop Giving Funders Tax Breaks for High Salaries, Fancy Offices
To ensure foundations contribute more to charity, Congress should target expenses — not just the payout rate.
By Craig Kennedy
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Invisible, Essential, Ignored: Philanthropy’s Missing Asset
In today's political climate, the gritty work of creating big-tent coalitions is essential to notching wins on climate and other big issues
By Eva Hernandez
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The Trick to Effective AI Use? Slow Down
AI can help nonprofits make clear-headed decisions, bolstering trust and equity. Here’s how.
By Sam Illingworth
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Want a Healthy Democracy? Here’s How to Support Local Leaders
Local officials are battling multiple crises created by federal actions. Their leadership is critical to halting authoritarianism and deserves more attention from philanthropy.
By Na Eng
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‘Food Insecurity’ and Other Words That Sanitize Poverty
How soft euphemisms turn the suffering of millions into an abstraction stripped of emotion or urgency. Plus, examples of straight talk that will rally supporters.
By Matt Watkins
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