This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Now more than ever, nonprofits face a more volatile and unpredictable environment. However, through The Bridgespan Group’s work (in partnership with Emerson Collective) supporting four dozen nonprofits in Emerson Collective’s portfolio,…
Our first-ever virtual Conversations with Chanda event guest was Vu Le, the creator of Nonprofit AF. Vu and Chanda talk about what community-centric philanthropy looks like, how philanthropy can be responsive…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nationwide sources of local rental information can be broken down into two categories: public surveys (specifically, the American Community Survey, or ACS) and proprietary real estate data. The ACS provides…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the country, communities are threatened by drinking water problems. Data on drinking water pollution is generally not well tracked by governments, due, in part, to the many and varied…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly all 50 states have opted into an online purchasing pilot for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While the program offers a safer way to shop and has the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Thanks to wider availability of vaccines and declining local rates of COVID-19, we’ve entered a new period in the pandemic. Parts of life are returning to what families were used…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Do you remember Hydra, the multi-headed, snakelike water monster from Greek mythology? According to the myth, Hydra possesses multiple heads and has a regeneration capacity. For each head that is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At TPI, we often refer to this as “high-impact” philanthropy – taking a proactive approach to philanthropy, defining goals, learning and uncovering funding opportunities to support those goals, and creatively leveraging…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the outset of the pandemic, working people who have long been overlooked and undervalued in America’s economic system were suddenly considered “essential,” and met with applause and national pressure…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Local journalism is in crisis. “America’s local news has reached its death spiral phase” proclaimed the Columbia Journalism Review in 2018. Two years later, an oft-cited study out of the University of North Carolina…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new farmer-owned app is connecting consumers with growers across the United States. Called GrownBy, the app allows shoppers to purchase produce directly from farms. These personal transactions give growers more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s entirely predictable, I suppose, but the backlash to last year’s reckoning on racism is definitely here, a year after George Floyd’s horrific murder–and now it’s visible within the little…