Learning for Social Impact: What Foundations Can Do
A McKinsey & Company white paper discussing how foundations can work together to achieve sector-wide change.
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Learning to Lead
This report from the James Irvine Foundation provides practical tools to help you take on leadership roles in your community, with insights and experiences from a variety of community foundations.
Lessons from the Field: From Understanding to Impact
A case study from the Center for Effective Philanthropy, Lessons from the Field: From Understanding to Impact, provides an in-depth look at how three foundations cultivate an understanding of their
Lessons from the Grassroots: A Field Guide for Funders
A report from the Rose Foundation on lessons learned from six years of grassroots grantmaking.
Lessons Learned for Funders of Advocacy Efforts & Evaluations
In this report, the Colorado Trust and Innovation Network chronicle the Trust's strategy for funding advocacy and provide a strategic evaluation for their successes and failures.
Let the World Know: Make Your Cause News
Should your organization be in the spotlight? Learn how to engage the media and turn your cause into a newsworthy event from the Nonprofit World.
Living Into Your Strategic Plan: A Guide to Implementation That Gets Results
This report from Bridgespan presents practical approaches to convert the vision of a strategic plan into tangible actions with links to templates that illustrate the types of tools used to lead imp
Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Change
What is participatory communications and what role can it play in the development process?
Measuring the Value of Corporate Philanthropy: Social impact, business benefits, and investor returns
This research report presents the corporate philanthropy community with an analysis of current measurement studies, models, and evidence drawn from complimentary business disciplines as well as fro
Money for Good
Money for Good addresses the behaviors and motivations of Americans related to their charitable giving and impact investing.
Moving Beyond the Money: News Coverage that Conveys a Broader Vision of Foundations
From the Philanthropy Awareness Initiative, this case study analyzes a NPR story about the launch of a Ford Foundation project and examines the steps that helped make it more than a transactional n
National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers Directory of Consultants
An online searchable database of vetted consultants with experience working with grantmakers.
Needle-Moving Community Collaboratives: A Promising Approach to Addressing America’s Biggest Challenges
By enlisting all sectors to work together, a new kind of community collaborative is making strides toward tackling powerful social issues in communities.
New Charitable Giving Incentives and Exempt Organization Reforms: Pension Protection Act of 2006
Summary of new charitable giving incentives in the Pension Protection Act of 2006 from Ropes & Gray; focus on donor-advised funds, supporing organizations, IRA rollover, and intermediate sancti
New Media Toolkit
This curated collection of online tools, tutorials and resources is designed to help nonprofits and ethnic and community news organizations navigate the often intimidating and ever-evolving new med
Nonprofit Budget Basics
Find a collection of resources on the how-tos of building your organization's budget.
Online Database of Social Media Policies
A database maintained by Social Media Governance including over 125 sample social media policies from major corporations and nonprofits.
Op-Eds: A Cost Effective Strategy for Advocacy
Newspaper op-eds are an inexpensive and powerful tool for reaching policymakers and the public. Get tips for writing effective op-eds from the Benton Foundation.
Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
Federal officials presented the Opening Doors report to the Obama Administration, detailing the nation's first comprehensive strategy to prevent and end homelessness.
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013
This fourth annual industry forecast from Lucy Bernholz suggests that major shifts in the sector are rooted in technology and data.