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Listening and Learning to Assess Needs, Find Your Niche

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Scanning, a seldom discussed but powerful strategy for philanthropic impact, involves taking time to learn more about your community or a particular field to find out how your giving can be most effective. It involves intentional learning to develop a giving focus or design—or refine—a giving strategy. buy cialis professional online https://nurseguidance.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/png/cialis-professional.html no prescription pharmacy... Read More

Change Demands More Than Programmatic Grants

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As grantmakers, we know the programs and projects we support are often by themselves insufficient to create the level of substantive change we hope for in the communities and issues we care about. buy phenergan online https://bionj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/png/phenergan.html no prescription pharmacy Yes, a well-run tutoring program can indeed change the lives of children. There are so... Read More

Thoughtful Blueprints, Well-Built Houses 

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A grantmaker’s guide to evaluating a nonprofit’s theory of change “If we just start nailing that lumber together, we’ll end up with your dream house.” —No architect, ever Nonprofit mission statements evoke powerful visions of social change. To translate these lofty rallying cries into action, many thoughtful organizations have developed a detailed blueprint illustrating the... Read More

Reclaiming Philanthropy’s Role as Changemaker

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I see dozens of funders around the country making change—catalyzing new ways of doing and thinking—without the support of a sizeable staff. This kind of change is bigger in scope than starting a new nonprofit organization, or helping a promising organization serve more people. Changemaking by small-staffed funders is transforming how people think about and... Read More

Considerations When Making Significant Gifts

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Effective and meaningful philanthropy takes many shapes and forms—and sometimes what sounds like the simplest charitable activity to undertake can be the most complicated. Take, for example, one-time significant gifts. Whereas there is no hard and fast rule about what constitutes a significant gift, what we are referring to here are gifts over $500,000 to... Read More