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For-Profit News Outlets are Exploring Nonprofit Models
For-Profit News Outlets are Exploring Nonprofit Models
As journalism’s traditional business model continues to stumble, many for-profit news outfits — legacy brands and 21st-century digital natives alike — are moving to explore, adapt, and adopt the nonprofit model.
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Indigenous and Afro-descendent Ancestral Practices and Community Philanthropy in the Americas
Indigenous and Afro-descendent Ancestral Practices and Community Philanthropy in the Americas
Indigenous communities in the Global South have long practiced reciprocal assistance to strengthen mutual trust, pool assets, build capacity, and help community members adapt to changing conditions and opportunities.
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Rethinking What Capacity Building Should Be — and Who Should Decide
Rethinking What Capacity Building Should Be — and Who Should Decide
As more nonprofits and funders look to further their impact and sustainability, power and equity are at the center of a growing movement to reimagine the language and practices of capacity building.
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Disaster Philanthropy is Transitioning for the Long Haul
Disaster Philanthropy is Transitioning for the Long Haul
As the frequency of natural disasters increases dramatically, philanthropic actors are rethinking how they engage over the long term to support community resilience, ecological health, and a justice-focused response.
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Collaboration at the Heart of Community Transformation
Collaboration at the Heart of Community Transformation
Volume 15, Issue 1 of The Foundation Review highlights ways foundations can support collaboration among nonprofits and communities to increase and sustain the impact of programs and initiatives over time.
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New Organizational Structure Models are Toppling the Staff Pyramid
New Organizational Structure Models are Toppling the Staff Pyramid
Efforts to alleviate burnout and economic and workplace inequity are leading more nonprofits to look for opportunities to spread the work, responsibility, and credit among more staff — and even other organizations.
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Comunidad y Familia: Trasladar la filantropía más allá de las fronteras
Comunidad y Familia: Trasladar la filantropía más allá de las fronteras
Michael Moody y Michael Layton comparten lo más destacado de su reciente viaje a México como parte de un proyecto colaborativo que explora las intersecciones de la filantropía comunitaria y familiar en América Latina.
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Comunidad y Familia: Translating Philanthropy Across Borders
Comunidad y Familia: Translating Philanthropy Across Borders
Michael Moody and Michael Layton share highlights from their recent trip to Mexico as part of a collaborative project exploring the intersections of community and family philanthropy in Latin America.
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More Nonprofit Employees are Moving to Unionize
More Nonprofit Employees are Moving to Unionize
After decades of declining enrollment, organized labor is back on workers’ minds — including in the nonprofit sector — as staff see unionization as a pathway to better pay, greater wellbeing, and increased equity.
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Impact Investing: Lessons Learned from Practitioners and Advocates
Impact Investing: Lessons Learned from Practitioners and Advocates
Volume 14, Issue 4 of The Foundation Review focuses on impact investing, sharing lessons learned from foundations whose investment portfolio is used to further its charitable mission while still achieving a financial return.
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Wed September 27
Grantmaker Ethics and Accountability
Ideal for foundation staff, donors, and others engaged in grantmaking, this workshop from The Grantmaking School provides practical tools and step-by-step guidance to help you navigate ethical challenges in grantmaking.
1:00 pm
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Thu October 12
Philanthropy's Quest for Equity: Past. Present. Future.
This interactive program presents a historical timeline to describe and examine milestones in the history of American philanthropy, weaving perspectives to analyze modern philanthropy’s quest for equity as practice, process, and vision.
1:00 pm
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Thu October 19
Introduction to Board Service
This virtual program is designed for people interested in board service or those looking to strengthen and refresh their knowledge and skills, and for executive directors to more effectively work with their boards.
1:00 pm
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In the News
Tue September 12
Second Annual Nonprofit Board Connect Takes Place September 19
Source: WGVU Morning Show
Thu August 24
‘The Single Best Tool for Forcing Public Scrutiny': New Collaboration to Expand Access to Nonprofit Data
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Wed July 19
Johnson Center conducts research into Mexico’s community and family philanthropy
Source: Alliance Magazine
Mon June 12
How established nonprofits can foster the next generation of philanthropists
Source: Crain's Detroit Business