Fund for Shared Insight Requests Proposals for “Listen for Good”
Fund for Shared Insight invites funders to nominate customer-facing nonprofits for “Listen for Good” grants; proposals due 5/26.
Archive: Philanthropy
American Press Institute Publishes Ethics Guidelines for Funding Media and News
The American Press Institute has issued new guiding principles for ethical philanthropic funding of nonprofit media.
A Few Reflections on the Challenges of Engaging Across Divisions
As the calendar year closes, we’ve reached out to several leaders in journalism, academia, philanthropy and social entrepreneurship to listen more deeply to what’s on their minds as they foster civic engagement in the current environment. We’ve heard several themes resonate: The importance of listening broadly and responding effectively to…
What We Hear Calling
Awake, listening for the future I love talking to scientists, social entrepreneurs, fellow philanthropists—anyone wrestling with the intersection of big ideas and reality.
Video Series: Philanthropy Lessons
Exponent Philanthropy is showcasing words of wisdom from inspirational funders in its video series Philanthropy Lessons. They will —adding new videos every month through June 2016, and inviting the broader community to share lessons on its site. The videos and campaign are supported by the Fund…
A Spring Upgrade for Your Feedback Loops
How do you know if you’re changing people’s lives for the better? The most fundamental way is to ask them, of course. But how to ask and how to act on what you hear is not always clear. A new resource is here to help. The Feedback Toolkit…
More Voices, Richer Data for Greater Impact
Fund for Shared Insight marks a new chapter for philanthropy In 2012, Oakland, California, was drowning in public record requests. An already overworked system had been flooded by requests for video, email and internal documents related to the Occupy Oakland protests. But there was no clear way…
The Philanthropic Lab in 2014
I began 2013 writing about how the Rita Allen Foundation draws inspiration from the young biomedical scholars we support. We aim to be, in a sense, a philanthropic lab—where creativity, risk, collaboration, assessment and learning are part of everything we do. Never has there been a more exciting…
Measuring to Learn
Last fall, the Rita Allen Foundation gathered six emerging nonprofits to talk about performance measurement. Each of the organizations works on some aspect of civic engagement. One, for instance, based in Seattle, seeks to change attitudes and action through environmental news, with a twist of humor. How do…