Weekly Reads
“As we have embarked on new funding initiatives, we have ensured that the number of partners that each relationship manager interacts with is small enough to allow for meaningful connections. We have also increased the frequency of our interactions, while being conscious of our partners’ time and priorities. For instance, when the pandemic hit, we reached out to our partners to see how they were doing and how we could support them, organized regional calls, and pivoted activities online in unique ways.” [more]
John Hecklinger and Corey Oser, Global Fund for Children
“The data ecosystem for the social sector is evolving rapidly and becoming an increasingly crowded space. ... Now is the time to ask incisive questions about access and accountability of any organization seeking your data or investment. Whether you’re a nonprofit, a funder, or a consortium, you have more power than you might think in building our data future together.” [more]
Chantal Forster, Technology Association of Grantmakers, for Candid
“Our learnings from this project reaffirmed much of what CEP has found in its past analysis — that staffing varies greatly across funders and that there is not one “right” model of staffing that fits all. Rather than relying on one metric, such as caseload, it appears that listening to multiple perspectives can help ensure that the choices you make about staffing are working well within your context and serving your strategies in service of impact.” [more]
Alice Mei, Center for Effective Philanthropy
“Equity requires the moving of resources to the communities that are most affected by systemic injustice, and to the organizations led by these communities. If you refuse to fund more than 10% of a nonprofit’s annual budget, for example, then most funding will continue to flow into larger, and thus more likely white-led, nonprofits.” [more]
Vu Le, Nonprofit AF
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