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What organizations can do to persevere through resistance.

[Image description: A hand holding three lit sparklers. The sparklers are shooting off sparkles in the dark. Image by StockSnap on Pixabay] Hi everyone.I hope you’ve been able to have somewhat of ……

In the opening session of We Give Summit 2023, The Solutions Project President & CEO Gloria Walton rallied and inspired the collective giving movement with a reminder that we have…

I am often warning nonprofits looking to engage young people against putting too much emphasis on giving and social media. Research I have led has shown—and continues to show—that while your…

The traditional hierarchical structure for philanthropy might mean well – but it’s rooted in patriarchal power and the white supremacy of the ‘white saviour’ who knows best swooping in to tell a community how to ……

The two-year Rural Library Fellowship, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Save the Children, is attempting to boost the capacity of libraries and “activate libraries…

Paralyzed from the neck down, downtown Milwaukee resident Martha Chambers has difficulty voting. She can use a mouth stick to mark her ballot and sign her name on an absentee…

Reading is essential — not just for school success, but for life. When children have trouble learning to read, it can kick off a devastating downward spiral. Struggling readers are…

Sara Lomelin offered the final TED Talk of this year’s conference of expert speakers last month, on a particularly star-studded day in Vancouver, Canada, where she followed actress Bryce Dallas…

When we think about the ways that philanthropy has worked historically, what we’ve heard from and shared with young activists during the Pro-action Cafe (a community space for open conversations…

As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, the devastation and destruction left behind grows. Land becomes unhabitable, and infrastructure crumbles, causing migration for survival. However, climate…

A hodgepodge of state and local laws makes some violence a hate crime in some places, but not in others.