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Author: Chloe Heskett

Courage in Unity: A Funder’s Response to the ‘State of Nonprofits’

Jun 3, 2025

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The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s State of Nonprofits report is timely and insightful, and many of its findings are an important reality check. We are in a time of great […] The post Courage in Unity: A Funder’s Response to the ‘State of Nonprofits’ appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post…
Unbought, Unbossed, and Unbowed: Sex Worker-Led Organizing in the Age of Respectability Politics

Jun 3, 2025

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Carlton V. Bell II Respectability politics has long cast a heavy shadow over the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. For those of us organizing at the intersections of sex work, Black liberation, trans justice, and bodily autonomy, this shadow is more than metaphorical. It’s a material barrier and systemic obstacle, a locked door to funding, to inclusion,…
Organizing for the Long Haul: How to Build a Network for Land and Liberation

May 29, 2025

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This article was originally published by NPQ Online on April 30, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/organizing-for-the-long-haul-how-to-build-a-network-for-land-and-liberation/. Used with permission. We are often forced to fight defensive battles in our movements. When your house is on fire, the immediate and urgent priority is to extinguish the blaze. Such is the case with many struggles against the present administration of President…
In Conversation: The State of Nonprofits is … Precarious

May 29, 2025

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This is the second 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: The State of Nonprofits is … Precarious appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
Change is a Process: What If Philanthropy Had the Courage to Take Its Cues From Nature?

May 27, 2025

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Those of us who engage in radical resource redistribution know that the goal of institutional philanthropy should be its own obsolescence. But that will not happen overnight; change is a […] The post Change is a Process: What If Philanthropy Had the Courage to Take Its Cues From Nature? appeared first on The Center for…
The Rainy Day is Now a Hurricane—Holding Climate Philanthropy Accountable in an Age of Climate Change Denialism to Resource the Most Vulnerable. (Part 1 of 2)

May 23, 2025

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NCRP launches the second phase of our Climate Justice and Just Transition campaign: holding climate funders accountable for their continued underfunding of these necessary frontline organizations with this special 2-part blog. Look out for part 2, where NCRP will dig further into CWF’s grantmaking data, including the increase in overlapped funding for non-frontline organizations between…
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 >>