Nonprofit Missions Won’t Advance Without Greater Employee Satisfaction (Letter to the Editor)
New polling data makes it clear that problems of burnout and undue pressure are getting in the way of achieving important social missions.
By Scot Chisholm
Contributor
Sex and Power: How Foundations Can Attack the Roots of Child Marriage
The key isn’t simply to delay marriage till age 18, it’s to end deeply entrenched cultures of gender inequality and destructive views on adolescent sexuality.
By Dena Kimball
Contributor
A Master Class for Philanthropy in Listening
Family Pictures USA, a new PBS program, offers tools that foundations and nonprofits can use to conduct their own community photo-sharing events to help people understand that difference is what weaves together the American fabric.
By Vince Stehle
Contributor
How to Use Gatherings to Share Ideas, Connect, and Get Things Done
Organizing and running a productive meeting is much more than logistics. It involves knowing whom to invite and why, asking strategic questions, and giving the event the right name.
By Priya Parker
as told to Carrie Clyne
Research Shows How to Advance Public Understanding of Science
Medical breakthroughs, new technology, and other developments happen at a rapid pace, with profound implications for society. It’s vitally important that decision makers, donors, and the public understand them.
It’s Time to Bring Back America’s Noble Impulses
‘Realists’ who say equality, a living wage, and environmentalism are fine in theory but not in practice need to turn to more noble ambitions. Philanthropy can lead the way.
By GRANT OLIPHANT
Contributor
How Philanthropy Can Help Impact Investing Reach Its Potential
Philanthropic organizations can play a critical role in fueling innovative approaches to critical social challenges including poverty, education, and climate change by providing “catalytic capital.”
Why Philanthropy Must Fix the Broken Internet
Just as grant makers rushed in to ensure television didn’t become just a commercial wasteland, so too must foundations ensure that there’s room for nonprofit services like Kiva and Wikipedia online.
By Greg Baldwin
Contributor
How to Protect Nonprofit CEOs From Bad Board Members
When nonprofit leaders worry all the time that their boards are about to fire them, they can’t focus on the mission. Let’s consider adding a third party to mediate or a mutual evaluation system to insulate chief executives from arbitrary acts.
By Rob Blizard
Contributor
Giving the Poor a Voice — With Help From the Rich
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of several much-acclaimed books on the working class, formed a nonprofit that finances journalists to do in-depth reporting about those losing out as inequality grows. More and more, she’s winning grants from the nation’s biggest foundations and billionaire donors.
By Michael Anft
Contributor