Environment
Climate Resilience Will Not Be Built by Press Release
Ahead of COP31, the test for climate finance is no longer what gets announced; it is whether money reaches the systems that protect people.
Measurement & Evaluation
Listening Is Not
the ‘Soft’ Option
To make measurement meaningful and real, social change organizations must cultivate a listening orientation to go beyond "objective" measurements of impact.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Governing Our Data on Our Own Terms
How one urban Indigenous organization is working to transform data governance using a model that’s founded on Indigenous values
Philanthropy & Funding
Funding When Democracy
Is in Decline
As the United States joins the ranks of countries with contracting civic space, some lessons from funders with experience working amidst uncertainty.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The New Nonprofit
Visibility Gap
AI is narrowing the pathways available to donors for finding nonprofits worthy of support. Nonprofits and the social sector must act to ensure that donors can make fully informed decisions.
Philanthropy & Funding
Toward Generative Philanthropy
What if—rather than focusing on funding "what works"—philanthropy asked what people and societies need to live well and flourish, and built the resources to match?
Technology
What Kind of World Is AI Building?
The ideologies behind today's most powerful technology
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Government
Weaving Democracy Entrepreneurship Across Borders
A specific group of democracy innovators is especially primed for and in need of cross-border collaboration.
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Economic Development
Taking the Long View on Community Economic Development
Revitalizing communities that have been hit hard by post-industrial decline can take decades, but government and philanthropy often operate on short-term funding timelines. In this episode, Barbara Wheeler-Bride talks with Bo Kemp, CEO of the Southland Development Authority, about this mismatch, and how his nonprofit is working with individuals, businesses, and municipalities in Chicago's south suburbs to reinvigorate the economy. Their innovative strategies, including owning assets like housing and property, could provide a template for other struggling regions across the United States. Giving With Impact is developed with the support of DAFgiving360®
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Creating Climate Policy That Works Requires Community Data
Portland residents explained what makes a building livable in a heat wave. Their responses became the basis for statewide climate policy.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Will AI Be a Force Multiplier for the Social Sector?
Artificial intelligence is a top-of-mind topic not just for leaders in philanthropy and the nonprofit sectors, but across all of society. As nonprofit and social impact organizations explore how AI tools might help them further their mission, many are wondering: What are the risks? Can the field scale up AI adoption without creating deeper societal inequities? In this episode, Barbara Wheeler-Bride talks with Jacqueline Watts of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation about how the foundation funds AI for social good. The conversation includes takeaways for donors, funders, nonprofit leaders and their teams who are grappling with questions about how or whether to use artificial intelligence. Giving With Impact is developed with the support of DAFgiving360®
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Community Governance Is Critical for Better Data-Informed Decisions
Organizations that put authentic community governance at the heart of their work are using civic data to drive better decisions, generate more durable trust, and produce positive social change.
Social Services
The Hidden Logic of Gun Violence
Men at high risk of violence interpret situations in ways that justify their violent response. Cognitive behavioral therapy can help.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Why Don’t Philanthropists Build Anymore?
The United States is living through a second Gilded Age. But unlike yesterday's magnates, today's billionaires prefer to write checks to existing organizations. They should instead build institutions that last.
Scaling
Scale Right, Not Cheap and Easy
Social innovation means building a road to the future that doesn't yet exist, without lowering standards.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Who Will Raise the Money When the Money Raisers Are Gone?
To solve the talent crisis, we must move from transactionalism to transformation.
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The Gyms on the Corners
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.
Business
Freedom of Choice
A lens for understanding business leaders' ability to act in alignment with their values.