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    Nonprofit Organizational Resilience During the COVID Crisis

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jul 14, 2021

    The author and professor Ken Bain once wrote, “Teaching is one of the human endeavors that rarely benefits from its past … For the most part, [great teachers’] insights die with…

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    How Disaster Funders Can Authentically Engage with Native Communities

    Disaster Relief and Recovery Magazine Jul 14, 2021

    Native American organizations are severely underfunded. As a result, when disaster strikes Native communities are disproportionately affected in their recovery. To address persistent underinvestment in Native communities and organizations, more…

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    Looking Out for Women’s Health Tech Startups in the Next Year

    Inc. Jul 14, 2021

    Women’s health tech companies struggled for years to convince investors just how massive the market potential could be. In 2020, they finally broke through: Funding for female-focused digital health startups–think…

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    Cash Bail: Why Donors Should Care About This Urgent Civil Rights and Racial Justice Issue

    The Bail Project Jul 14, 2021

    Our criminal legal system is founded on the ideal that everyone is presumed innocent unless proven otherwise in a court of law. But in reality, many people are forced to…

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    High-tide Flood Risk is Accelerating, Putting Coastal Economies at Risk

    The Conversation Jul 14, 2021

    As sea level rises, it can be easy to miss the subtlety of higher water. It’s much harder to overlook saltwater more frequently flooding streets, impeding daily life and making…

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    California is Planning Floating Wind Farms Offshore to Boost its Power Supply

    The Conversation Jul 14, 2021

    Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly,…

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    Actionable Measurement: Getting from “Prove” to “Improve”

    The Bridgespan Group

    At our organization, One Acre Fund, we’ve found that randomized control trials (RCTs) can be a powerful and appropriate tool under certain conditions and for certain audiences. But as practitioners charged…

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    Five Good Grantmaking Practices

    Grantcraft

    I do a lot of listening and observing. We work with nonprofit organizations on a daily basis through our libraries, classes, and customer service inquiries, and so we hear a…

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    Addressing the Problem of Lead in Drinking Water

    Grantmakers in Health

    The critical connection between water and health can be found in almost every aspect of our lives. For most, this link is the water from the taps in our homes,…

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    Can Grade-Skipping Close the STEM Gender Gap?

    The Atlantic Jul 14, 2021

    Creating more opportunities for super-bright girls to skip grades might be one of the most viable ways to open cracks in the glass ceiling that has plagued STEM (science, technology,…

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    Garnering Support From Nonprofit Audiences

    Forbes Jul 13, 2021

    Success for any business or organization is measured in many ways apart from sales. One critical factor that determines the success of an organization is how solid its connections are…

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    The Challenges of Improving School Ventilation in the Next Year

    The 74 Jul 13, 2021

    Last August, when Florida’s Hillsborough County Public Schools began upgrading air filters in their K-12 buildings, the event was so significant that news trucks showed up to document one of the first…

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