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You have one hour to decide. Do you accept the seven-figure gift from a corporation whose practices contradict your mission statement? Your giving mod...
When the pandemic hit in 2020, foundations rewrote their playbooks overnight. They loosened restrictions, sped up grants, and trusted grantees. It wor...
Philanthropy loves the word 'sustainability.' But almost nobody defines what it means the day the grant money stops. When a foundaing announces a new ...
Every January, program officers at the Potters bench Foundation sit down with a colour-coded calendar. Q1 disbursements by March 15. Interim reports d...
So you have a data snag. Not a technical one—a deeper one. Your indicators were designed in a capital far from the community they measure. Your survey...
The clinic reported 1,200 patients treated. A clean number. funder loved it. But six month later, after a flood, only 200 returned. The output was tru...
You are running a job training program. You require a metric. Quickly. So you count 'number of graduates.' Easy. But what if graduates can't find work...
You run a participatory evaluation. You hold focus groups, distribute surveys in local languages, even hire community researchers. But when the final ...
You open the file. It is dated 1987. The donor wanted scholarships for "deserving youth of the local textile industry." But the last mill cl...
You are a program officer at a family foundation. A nonprofit you've funded for three years just showed stellar outcomes: 40% more kids finishing home...
foundation don't get voted off the island. But when they were poured—maybe in the 1950s, maybe the 1980s—the builded code assumed a stable climate. Th...
Picture this: a modest land trust in Oregon needs to plant 10,000 native saplings along a salmon stream. The ideal window is November through February...