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  • September 2024 Open Thread

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    Our goal with hosting quarterly open threads is to give blog readers an opportunity to publicly raise comments or questions about GiveWell or related topics (in the comments section below). As always, you’re also welcome to email us at info@givewell.org or to request a call with GiveWell staff if you have feedback or questions you’d…

  • Navigating the Equity Journey at Lean Foundations

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    In the evolving landscape of philanthropy, lean funders — those operating with few or no staff — are playing a crucial role in advancing racial equity. The latest edition of […] The post Navigating the Equity Journey at Lean Foundations appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>

  • August 2024 Updates

    August 2024 Updates

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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…

  • As the Planet Heats Up, New Trends Drive Climate Giving

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    After the hottest year on record, 2024 has continued to bring unprecedented heat and extreme weather events. Today, 80 percent of people globally want their country to do more on […] The post As the Planet Heats Up, New Trends Drive Climate Giving appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>

  • Democracy and Management: Organizational Practices and Nonprofits’ Contributions to Society

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    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Nonprofit organizations contribute to society through service provision, advocacy, and community building. As they face the challenge of pursuing a social mission while operating in a market economy, many adopt businesslike practices in response. Nonprofits’ tendency to adopt such practices has become a contested scholarly topic, with,…

  • Book Review: Organizing Logics, Nonprofit Management and Change

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    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print.    Goto full post >>

  • Insights from Grantees: A CEP Blog Series

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    Funders have used CEP’s Grantee Perception Report to gather candid, comparative feedback from their grantees for more than two decades. In addition to sharing confidential reports with individual funders to […] The post Insights from Grantees: A CEP Blog Series appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>

  • Raffles, Deworming, and Statistics

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    Sometimes statistics can help when it’s hard to decide what to do. You’re at a local art fair, and they’re raffling off a car worth $10,000. Five hundred tickets are being sold, each for $10. Does it make financial sense to buy a ticket? (For the moment, let’s set aside other questions about raffles and…

  • A Framework for Democracy Philanthropy

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    This post originally appeared on The Art of Association blog. It is challenging for philanthropic funders to get started and stay focused when it comes to strengthening democracy. The vagaries […] The post A Framework for Democracy Philanthropy appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>

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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print.    Goto full post >>