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Not Your Model Grantee: When Asian American Advocacy Challenges Philanthropy

May 21, 2025

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I never thought the Asian model minority myth would catch up to me while working at a progressive social justice nonprofit. Until one day, it did. My supervisor Irma Shauf-Bajar and I – both of us Filipino Americans – crossed a line in philanthropy that we didn’t know existed. We broke the unspoken rules on how to…

As Needs Keep Mounting, How Philanthropists Can Prioritize Support to Global Civil Society

May 20, 2025

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The rapid dismantling of U.S. foreign assistance has thrown the social and civic sectors into upheaval worldwide. Media reports understandably focus on the human costs of shuttering global health programs, […] The post As Needs Keep Mounting, How Philanthropists Can Prioritize Support to Global Civil Society appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto…

May 2025 Updates

May 19, 2025

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Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…

Introducing Shareable’s new toolkit: “Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistance”

May 15, 2025

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Our communities are facing many crises, from worsening climate disasters to fascism. It’s clearer than ever that we need each other to survive and thrive. Building robust and sustainable mutual aid networks is necessary to care for each other and build power. Of course, mutual aid is not new, and neither are the effects of…

Reconsidering Our Relationship to Power: What If Philanthropy’s Greatest Resource Isn’t Financial but Relational Capital?

May 15, 2025

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Individualism. Competition. Risk aversion. Short-termism. Scarcity. Presumed expertise. Many of the norms by which philanthropy operates perpetuate the very narratives our sector seeks to change. In this series on the […] The post Reconsidering Our Relationship to Power: What If Philanthropy’s Greatest Resource Isn’t Financial but Relational Capital? appeared first on The Center for Effective…

If You Know You Know: What If Philanthropy is Mistaking Wealth for Expertise?

May 13, 2025

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Individualism. Competition. Risk aversion. Short-termism. Scarcity. Presumed expertise. Many of the norms by which philanthropy operates perpetuate the very narratives our sector seeks to change. In this series on the […] The post If You Know You Know: What If Philanthropy is Mistaking Wealth for Expertise? appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto…

In Conversation: About Those 100-and-Some Days

May 8, 2025

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This is the first in a series of occasional chats among some of CEP’s staff we’ll be posting on the blog, in which they discuss the current context for philanthropy […] The post In Conversation: About Those 100-and-Some Days appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>

Taking a Breath: A Message from Storme Gray

May 7, 2025

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Dear EPIP Community, This year, EPIP celebrates 25 years of cultivating leadership, building community, and advancing equity in philanthropy. As we look ahead to the unveiling of our new strategic framework later this year, I find myself reflecting not only on what we’ve accomplished together, but how we’ve chosen to lead. For nearly a decade,…

Leaning Into Abundance: What If Philanthropy’s Potential Wasn’t Limited by Manufactured Scarcity?

May 6, 2025

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Individualism. Competition. Risk aversion. Short-termism. Scarcity. Presumed expertise. Many of the norms by which philanthropy operates perpetuate the very narratives our sector seeks to change. In this series on the […] The post Leaning Into Abundance: What If Philanthropy’s Potential Wasn’t Limited by Manufactured Scarcity? appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full…

The Long Arc: Philanthropy’s Role in Nurturing Multiracial Democracy

May 1, 2025

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In times of political turbulence, the impulse to focus solely on immediate challenges is understandable. Yet history reminds us that democracy has always been a long-term project — one that […] The post The Long Arc: Philanthropy’s Role in Nurturing Multiracial Democracy appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>

Philanthropic Foundations and the Exercise of Power: An Integrative Literature Review of the Many Faces of Power

Apr 30, 2025

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Since their legal establishment, philanthropic foundations have raised concerns due to the power they exert through their distribution of resources, oftentimes in vast amounts. Many academic fields have researched these power relationships, but as of yet, … Goto full post >>

“No Tariffs on Sharing”: Tool Libraries Offer Resilience Amid Federal Chaos

Apr 29, 2025

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This story was originally published by Truthout. As a handy person, Devon Curtin spends a lot of time helping people enrich their living spaces. Recently, while working with a friend to remodel their floor, Curtin noticed that the cost of do-it-yourself projects is already rising because of Donald Trump’s tariffs. “The cost of mahogany was the…

The AI Wave is Here – And Too Many Funders Are Standing on the Beach

Apr 29, 2025

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An education nonprofit uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support k-12 students individually to become stronger writers. A metropolitan county deploys AI to forecast which individuals accessing services are at risk […] The post The AI Wave is Here – And Too Many Funders Are Standing on the Beach appeared first on The Center for Effective…

Expanding From North-South to South-South: The Evolution of a Twinning Relationship in Global Health

Apr 26, 2025

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article investigates the transition of North-South development partnerships toward more balanced dependence structures, using a case study in global health to illuminate the Southern partner’s strategic evolution. While extant nonprofit literature … Goto full post >>

Trust, Transparency, and Resilience: How a Multiyear Grants Budget Benefits Grantees and Foundation Staff

Apr 24, 2025

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Four years ago, the Sewall Foundation decided to tackle an incongruence in our practice of trust-based philanthropy: how to make multiyear grants within a structure of single-year grants budgets. The […] The post Trust, Transparency, and Resilience: How a Multiyear Grants Budget Benefits Grantees and Foundation Staff appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy.…

Resilience of Nonprofits Serving or Led by People of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Apr 24, 2025

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study aims to understand whether POC-serving or POC-led nonprofits (nonprofits serving or led by people of color) had disparate experiences during the pandemic. Data (The data collected for this study are not publicly available due to ethical and … Goto full post >>

Spending Stories: Moving from Perpetuity to Purpose

Apr 22, 2025

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Individualism. Competition. Risk aversion. Short-termism. Scarcity. Presumed expertise. Many of the norms by which philanthropy operates perpetuate the very narratives our sector seeks to change. In this series on the CEP […] The post Spending Stories: Moving from Perpetuity to Purpose appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>

Filling the Social Welfare Gap: The Impact of a Nonprofit’s Guaranteed Income Program for Artists

Apr 19, 2025

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Young theorized that nonprofits can serve a supplementary role by addressing unmet demands that fall outside the scope of existing government programs. However, empirical evidence testing the supplementary role of nonprofits is limited, and even less is … Goto full post >>

Understanding Job Satisfaction and Burnout in Nonprofits: The Critical Role of Communication and Leadership

Apr 19, 2025

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In recent years, there has been an acute need in nonprofit organizations to better understand what affects employee job satisfaction and burnout and to bolster employee morale and retention. This study analyzes survey data from 239 employees at two … Goto full post >>

Positioning and Repositioning: What if What We Inherited Doesn’t Have to Be the Legacy We Leave?

Apr 17, 2025

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Individualism. Competition. Risk aversion. Short-termism. Scarcity. Presumed expertise. Many of the norms by which philanthropy operates perpetuate the very narratives our sector seeks to change. In this series on the CEP […] The post Positioning and Repositioning: What if What We Inherited Doesn’t Have to Be the Legacy We Leave? appeared first on The Center for…

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