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Author: Chloe Heskett

Burnout and Well-Being in Grantee Organizations: A CEP Blog Series

Aug 15, 2024

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Among the findings of Center for Effective Philanthropy’s State of Nonprofits 2024: What Funders Need to Know, was a striking statistic: 95 percent of nonprofit leaders who responded to CEP’s survey […] The post Burnout and Well-Being in Grantee Organizations: A CEP Blog Series appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
Bringing the Economic Benefits of Reading Glasses into Focus

Aug 13, 2024

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It started in my early forties, and it’s only gotten worse since then. At first, it was a mild annoyance, but now it affects my quality of life and makes it harder to get things done. I’m definitely not alone—almost every middle-aged person I know has the same problem—and maybe you do too: a condition…
What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Nonprofit World

Aug 13, 2024

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It’s not easy being a corporate CEO these days. Just look at the recent travails of leaders at high profile companies like Boeing or Disney or Starbucks. They, and many […] The post What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Nonprofit World appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
Navigating Local: Emergent Roles of Navigators in Community-Driven Care Systems

Aug 13, 2024

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. As disparities in access to social services continue, nonprofit practitioners are reimagining mechanisms to support service provision through systems of care. Systems of care are interorganizational referral networks that assemble a cross-section of nonprofits to coordinate care. Care systems use human navigators to support clients connecting to…
The Decline of Volunteering in the United States: Is it the Economy?

Aug 9, 2024

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article investigates the complex interactions between local and national economic contexts and volunteering behavior. We examine three dimensions of local economic context—economic disadvantage (e.g., the percentage of families living in poverty), income inequality, and economic growth (e.g., the change in median household income)—and the impact of…
This Election Year, Why and How to Support Women Leaders

Aug 8, 2024

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With November’s election looming in the United States, who will be in power is on most of our minds. The election represents a critical window to increase female representation throughout […] The post This Election Year, Why and How to Support Women Leaders appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
Keeping the Spark Alive: How One Funder Invests in Grantee Well-Being

Aug 1, 2024

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Burnout within nonprofit organization staff is a growing concern within the sector, as seen in the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s new research, State of Nonprofits 2024: What Funders Need to […] The post Keeping the Spark Alive: How One Funder Invests in Grantee Well-Being appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post…
Bricolage Strategies, Stakeholder Engagement, and the Geographic Expansion of Social Enterprises

Aug 1, 2024

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Social enterprises (SEs), hybrid entities balancing revenue generation and social or environmental goals, often employ bricolage due to resource constraints. Interviews with 37 SE managers unveiled two pivotal bricolage strategies—utilizing SE status–related marketing resources and leveraging available technological resources—as well as how their interplay influences geographical expansion…
How Funders Can Support Youth Mental Health: Three Ways Forward

Jul 30, 2024

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From social media feeds to bus depots, messages about the importance of maintaining our physical health are all around us. In contrast, mental health receives far less attention, despite a […] The post How Funders Can Support Youth Mental Health: Three Ways Forward appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
More Money, More Problems? Implications of Excess Cash in Nonprofit Hospitals

Jul 30, 2024

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines the implications of excess cash in nonprofit hospitals. Using a nationally representative sample of hospitals, I benchmark nonprofit cash holdings against for-profit cash holdings, and find that nonprofit hospitals hold significantly more cash. I consider three potential uses of excess cash in nonprofit hospitals:…
Book Review: Rocking Qualitative Social Science—An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research, by Rubin, A.T

Jul 27, 2024

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Volunteering in the Middle of Crisis and Politicization: The Role of Religiosity, Political Ideology, and Personal Experiences in Volunteerism Among Muslims and Christians During COVID-19

Jul 23, 2024

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Religion is a strong social identity cue that creates in-group and out-group identity. Yet individuals can harbor multiple identities, and a political ideology is another significant identity marker. Similarly, personal experiences with disease also create another social identity where individuals may feel part of the same social…
The Whole Leader: A Call for Self-Care in Social Impact

Jul 22, 2024

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Social impact professionals are some of the most extraordinary people on this planet. They work tirelessly to confront injustice, corruption, global pandemics, crumbling democracies, and potentially harmful technological advances — […] The post The Whole Leader: A Call for Self-Care in Social Impact appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
What If We Have Extra?

Jul 18, 2024

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What do you do if you’re in the very fortunate position of having more money than you need to meet your own immediate needs? You might find new things to buy. You might stockpile it for a rainy day. You might donate it to cost-effective global health programs. Or you might do some combination of…
Four ‘T’s for Better Funding Relationships and Healthier Nonprofits

Jul 18, 2024

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As the old saying goes “Victory has a thousand fathers.” And few victories come as close to that claim as the successes wrought by funders and their grantees. It takes […] The post Four ‘T’s for Better Funding Relationships and Healthier Nonprofits appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
How Giving Circles Have Shaped the Latino Community Foundation’s Grantmaking — And What Comes Next

Jul 16, 2024

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At the heart of the Latino Community Foundation’s (LCF) mission to unleash the civic and economic power of Latinos are our most passionate advocates: the members of our Latino Giving […] The post How Giving Circles Have Shaped the Latino Community Foundation’s Grantmaking — And What Comes Next appeared first on The Center for Effective…
More than a Spoonful of Medicine

Jul 11, 2024

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What does it take to prevent malaria? Some of the programs GiveWell recommends might sound straightforward—for example, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programs provide antimalarial drugs to young children—but the process of accomplishing this is not simple at all. Below, we offer a post from Malaria Consortium that describes the many complex steps required to carry…
Elections Are Coming, and the Time for Funders to Act Is Now

Jul 11, 2024

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Summer is heating up and so, too, are efforts to register voters and get out the vote in advance of what is promising to be a tense election season. Not […] The post Elections Are Coming, and the Time for Funders to Act Is Now appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full…
Making It Count: Expanding the Ford Foundation’s Diversity Data Collection Beyond the United States

Jul 9, 2024

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As a global funder, we often hear from, and share with, our peers the challenges of collecting grantee demographic data internationally. This includes questions of how to navigate different legal […] The post Making It Count: Expanding the Ford Foundation’s Diversity Data Collection Beyond the United States appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy.…
Some Things We’re Reading

Jul 2, 2024

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Today we’re sharing quotes with links to a few pieces we’ve come across recently in our work—claims have not been vetted, and (of course) interest is not endorsement. “The story of Ethiopian manufacturing—its rise, its faltering, and its potential for renewal—is an example, I believe, of where a little more empathy can lead to better…