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During a recent review of the Pilgrim Foundation’s U.S.-based grant applications, one theme surfaced repeatedly in conversations with our nonprofit partners: everything costs more. Partners described higher expenses for staffing, […] The post What Inflation Taught Us About Consistent Grantmaking<div class="print-only-c
In the first piece of this series, we introduced the tidal foundation as an alternative to the fixed choice between perpetuity or spend down. In this piece, we will get […] The post When the Tide Should Rise: Deciding When Mission Requires More<div class="print-only-coauthors"><div>Carmen Rojas, Ph.D.<span> President a
Seven days into the second Trump administration, after a raft of executive orders including several targeting “DEI programs,” we published a piece I authored on this blog titled “In Defense […] The post Revisiting the DEI Debate: What We Can Learn From Corporate Capitulation<div class="print-only-coauthors"><div>Phil B
Approaches to foundation spending have too often been organized around a false choice. Foundations are expected to preserve assets in perpetuity while spending at or near the IRS-required 5% minimum, […] The post The Tidal Foundation: Unmooring Philanthropy From Perpetuity Versus Spend Down<div class="print-only-coauth
Two years ago, burnout in the nonprofit sector was a five-alarm fire — and it’s only spread and raged further since then. At the time, I wrote “A Call for […] The post The Sector Is Still Burning – Here’s What We Know Now<div class="print-only-coauthors"><div>Carolina García Jayaram<span> CEO, Elevate Prize Foundation<
“So much of my work life was driven by the feeling that my work is who I am, and all I have. Realizing that isn’t actually true was huge for […] The post Rest Is Infrastructure — It’s Time Foundations Treated It That Way<div class="print-only-coauthors"><div>Abby Siegel Hyman<span> Program Partner for External Partners
I’ve appreciated seeing CEP’s leaders contribute thoughtful viewpoints in recent weeks on some of the burning topics facing our field. I’m thinking specifically about Phil Buchanan’s column about smart approaches […] The post Is the Call to Give More Distracting Foundations From Giving Better?<div class="print-only-coa
In our previous post, we shared findings from Let’s Keep Learning, a research initiative led by Engage R+D and ORS Impact, with support from the Barr Foundation and others. In […] The post Learning Is Not a Luxury: Bringing Learning Closer to Decisions and Communities<div class="print-only-coauthors"><div>Clare Nolan<s
When it comes to effecting tangible improvements in local or regional systems, collaborations across the public, private, and philanthropic sectors are of paramount importance. That said, many in philanthropy will […] The post What it Takes to Build Locally-Grounded Systems Change<div class="print-only-coauthors"><div>
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