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Articles Tagged With 'funding'

Date Author Category Title
Spring 2003
Jan Masaoka
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofits • Measuring Social Impact • Philanthropy • First Person The Effectiveness Trap Millions of words have been written about the need to measure the effectiveness of nonprofits, and millions of dollars have been spent doing just that. It's time to ask: What has been the impact of this effectiveness movement?
Spring 2003
Christine W. Letts & William P. Ryan
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy • Features Filling the Performance Gap The authors provide answers to three questions about the increasingly popular and controversial funding approach called high engagement, or venture philanthropy. What do grantees gain from it? How does it work? And should we encourage it?
Spring 2003
SSIR editor
Philanthropy • Foundations • Philanthropy • Foundations • Q&A 15 Minutes with Susan Berresford Susan V. Berresford, president of the Ford Foundation, discusses her approach to philanthropy.
Summer 2003
James Austin
Business • Socially Responsible Business Strategic Alliances Managing the collaboration portfolio.
Summer 2003
Mark Chaves
Nonprofits • Government • Social Policy • Government Programs • Global Issues • Religion & Culture Debunking Charitable Choice [Free!] The evidence doesn’t support the political left or right.
Summer 2003
Chris McGarry
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations Is Foundation Grantmaking Biased? Social movement and grassroots organizations left in the cold.
Summer 2003
Jed Emerson
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises Where Money Meets Mission Breaking down the firewall between foundation
investments and programming.
Winter 2003
Paul Brest
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management Smart Money [Free!] General operating grants can be
strategic – for nonprofits and foundations.
Spring 2004
SSIR editor
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations 15 minutes with Bill Drayton [Free!] CEO of Ashoka.
Fall 2004
Andrea Orr
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Fundraising • Social Return on Investment A Lesson for the Left Study finds right-wing philanthropy gets more results.
Winter 2004
Ronald A. Heifetz, John V. Kania, & Mark R. Kramer
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Nonprofit Leadership Leading Boldly [Free!] Foundations can move past traditional approaches to create social change through imaginative – and even controversial – leadership.
Winter 2004
Andrea Orr
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations Neglecting the Neediest Foundations favor urban poor over rural residents.
Winter 2004
SSIR editors
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Health 15 Minutes with Seth Berkley [Free!] President and CEO of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Spring 2005
Francie Ostrower
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management The Reality Underneath the Buzz of Partnerships [Free!] The potentials and pitfalls of partnering.
Spring 2005
Andrew Rich
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Government • Social Policy War of Ideas [Free!] Why mainstream and liberal foundations and the think tanks they support are losing in the war of ideas in American politics.
Summer 2005
Laura Lauder
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Global Issues • Education You Can’t Do That! [Free!] A venture philanthropist's experience with reforming education.
Spring 2006
Keith Epstein
Philanthropy • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Fundraising • Global Issues • Health • Environment Crisis Mentality [Free!] Why sudden emergencies attract more funds than do chronic conditions, and how nonprofits can change that.
Spring 2006
SSIR editors
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations 15 Minutes with Melissa Berman [Free!] Advising old foundations & new donors.
Summer 2006
Alana Conner Snibbe
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Business • Social Enterprises What Profits Do for Nonprofits A rare study shows how earned income helps agencies –- and how it doesn’t.
Summer 2006
various authors
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Leadership Pundits Weigh In [Free!] "The Leadership Deficit" sidebar
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