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From Chaos and Competition to Clarity and Coordination: Four Pivots for Aligning Coalitions to Achieve Equity

How do you get diverse stakeholders, each serving different communities and with its own unique mission and goals, moving together in pursuit of equity?

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Evolving Your Organization to Sustain and Deepen Impact: Why a Clear Business Model is Important

For many nonprofit leaders the impact they want to have is clear, but the path to getting there is keeping them up at night. A clear business model can help.

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Redesigning Capacity Building: How Philanthropy Must Support Leaders of Color

It’s time to adopt capacity-building approaches that leaders of color say will actually help. Below are three basic principles to guide these efforts.

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Moving to Action to Advance Racial Equity: Examples from Community Foundations

We’ve seen firsthand the actions community foundations are taking to advance racial equity through research on community foundation practices and a peer cohort of 12 community foundations we facilitated in 2021.

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Sharing Power With Community Members: Perspectives from Rochester-Area Funders, Nonprofits, and Parents

Interviews with parents, nonprofit leaders, and funders speak to the power of engaging community in the work of philanthropy and nonprofits.

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Leadership Development Programs Need an Upgrade: Five Ways to Advance Racial Equity

With support from the Barr Foundation, Community Wealth Partners spoke to Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) nonprofit leaders and leadership development program providers to help Barr understand how they and other foundations can support BIPOC leadership in the context of racial equity.

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Reflecting on the Social Sector After the First 100 Days: Themes from a Conversation Among Funders and Nonprofit Leaders

April 29 marked 100 days of the Trump administration. During this time, budget cuts and executive orders have affected many […]

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Reflecting on the Social Sector After the First 100 Days: Themes from a Conversation Among Funders and Nonprofit Leaders

Reflecting on the Social Sector After the First 100 Days: Themes from a Conversation Among Funders and Nonprofit Leaders

Strategies for Supporting Nonprofit Connection and Resilience

Strategies for Supporting Nonprofit Connection and Resilience

Answering Common Questions About Scenario Planning

Answering Common Questions About Scenario Planning

Scenario Planning: A Tool to Help Nonprofits Navigate Change and Uncertainty

Scenario Planning: A Tool to Help Nonprofits Navigate Change and Uncertainty

Supporting Collaboration During Times of Change and Uncertainty: A case study of the Healthy Food Community of Practice

Supporting Collaboration During Times of Change and Uncertainty: A case study of the Healthy Food Community of Practice

Assessing Your Readiness for an Earned Revenue Strategy

Assessing Your Readiness for an Earned Revenue Strategy

Sharing Power With Communities: Choosing an Engagement Strategy

Sharing Power With Communities: Choosing an Engagement Strategy

Building Collective Capacity for Systems Change: Four Components to Prioritize

Building Collective Capacity for Systems Change: Four Components to Prioritize

Fostering connection, learning and collaboration to advance systems change

Fostering connection, learning and collaboration to advance systems change

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Leaning into Relationships for Greater Impact: Resources from and for community foundations

Leaning into Relationships for Greater Impact: Resources from and for community foundations

From Chaos and Competition to Clarity and Coordination: Four Pivots for Aligning Coalitions to Achieve Equity

From Chaos and Competition to Clarity and Coordination: Four Pivots for Aligning Coalitions to Achieve Equity

Evolving Your Organization to Sustain and Deepen Impact: Why a Clear Business Model is Important

Evolving Your Organization to Sustain and Deepen Impact: Why a Clear Business Model is Important

Bridging Differences to Advance Equity: Three Lessons Community Foundations Are Learning About Engaging Donors and Community

Bridging Differences to Advance Equity: Three Lessons Community Foundations Are Learning About Engaging Donors and Community

Using Movement-Building Strategies and Tools to Cast a Wider Net

Using Movement-Building Strategies and Tools to Cast a Wider Net

Four Lessons Learned in Building Trusting Relationships with Community

Four Lessons Learned in Building Trusting Relationships with Community

Telling a Different Story of Impact

Telling a Different Story of Impact

Strengthening Relationships Through a Community of Practice

Strengthening Relationships Through a Community of Practice

How to Engage Authentically with Communities

How to Engage Authentically with Communities

Normalizing Rest on the Road to Recovery in the Social Sector

Normalizing Rest on the Road to Recovery in the Social Sector

Secrets to Success in Engaging Broad, Diverse Stakeholders for Transformational Change: Insights from the Healthy Food Community of Practice

Secrets to Success in Engaging Broad, Diverse Stakeholders for Transformational Change: Insights from the Healthy Food Community of Practice

FAQs on Racial Equity and Intersectionality

FAQs on Racial Equity and Intersectionality

Redesigning Capacity Building: How Philanthropy Must Support Leaders of Color

Redesigning Capacity Building: How Philanthropy Must Support Leaders of Color

Q&A: Kresge REED partners share the power in holding space for rest, healing, collective learning

Q&A: Kresge REED partners share the power in holding space for rest, healing, collective learning

Farewell to our President, Sara Brenner

Farewell to our President, Sara Brenner

Standing in Solidarity With Reproductive Justice Leaders

Standing in Solidarity With Reproductive Justice Leaders

Moving to Action to Advance Racial Equity: Examples from Community Foundations

Moving to Action to Advance Racial Equity: Examples from Community Foundations

Announcing our 2022 Community Foundation Cohort: Increasing Support to BIPOC Communities

Announcing our 2022 Community Foundation Cohort: Increasing Support to BIPOC Communities

Sharing Power With Community Members: Perspectives from Rochester-Area Funders, Nonprofits, and Parents

Sharing Power With Community Members: Perspectives from Rochester-Area Funders, Nonprofits, and Parents

Leadership Development Programs Need an Upgrade: Five Ways to Advance Racial Equity

Leadership Development Programs Need an Upgrade: Five Ways to Advance Racial Equity

Insights from Community Foundations Who Are Talking to Donors About Racial Equity

Insights from Community Foundations Who Are Talking to Donors About Racial Equity

In Conversation: Equitable Approaches to Capacity Building Webinar

In Conversation: Equitable Approaches to Capacity Building Webinar

Three Frameworks for Shifting Power for Greater Equity and Impact

Three Frameworks for Shifting Power for Greater Equity and Impact

Leveraging Arts and Culture Practices to Advance Racial Justice: An Interview with Michelle Johnson from The Kresge Foundation

Leveraging Arts and Culture Practices to Advance Racial Justice: An Interview with Michelle Johnson from The Kresge Foundation

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