Nonprofit leaders are thrilled to get more general operating support, but they are still spending a lot of time complying with rules that have little to do with helping their organizations accomplish essential work.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
We’re All Dealing With Anxiety and Uncertainty. Let’s Not Let That Affect How We Make Grants
When I feel like we’re making too little progress, it’s tempting to switch gears and adopt the latest approach — but what nonprofits need most now is consistent, flexible, long-term funding — and lots of it.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Who Holds Philanthropy Accountable for Racial Justice?
The Movement for Black Lives is doing something new by getting grant makers to call their peers. Now we need a bigger push to ensure we’re all working every day to advance change, writes Lisa Pilar Cowan of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Who Holds Philanthropy Accountable for Racial Justice?
The Movement for Black Lives is doing something new by getting grant makers to call their peers. Now we need a bigger push to ensure we’re all working every day to advance change, writes Lisa Pilar Cowan of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Why Philanthropy Can’t Keep Hoarding Assets in the Pandemic (Dispatches)
The race to stockpile toilet paper is an illogical and impractical response to the crisis. So, too, is foundations’ unwillingness to increase the share of assets that go to charity every year.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Change Is Too Rapid in Covid-19 Era to Tie Nonprofits’ Hands With Old Rules (Dispatches)
As in every disaster, nonprofits during the pandemic have been inundated with dollars to use for specific purposes. But too often that assumes today will be like yesterday — and that is now less true than ever.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
Covid-19 Lesson for a Grant Maker: Listening and Understanding Matters (Dispatches)
Moving from giving help to asking for help is a lesson we are learning in the pandemic — and it should change us for the better.
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor
The Coronavirus Crisis Has Changed How I View What Matters in Philanthropy
Is the current scrappy, urgent approach to grant making the one we must all adopt forever after?
By Lisa Pilar Cowan
Contributor