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The Future We Build Together Starts With What We Protect Today
After Independent Sector's 2026 National Summit, Amber Trout reflects on the people, infrastructure, and difficult decisions shaping the nonprofit sector's ...
Beyond the Election: What Does Lasting Progress Look Like?
Election-year grants can leave lasting effects. Learn how funders can recognize stronger relationships, community leadership, and organizational capacity ...
Community Change Takes More Than Funding. Here’s What Makes It Stick.
Nearly a decade after a community leadership initiative in rural Mississippi, what continued to matter? Four lessons offer funders and ...
Beyond Upstream: Rethinking How We Create Change in Public Health
What happens when public health interventions change the systems around them? Explore practical ways to recognize feedback, find opportunities for ...
Listening to Baltimore’s Communities: Lessons for Local Philanthropy Everywhere
Baltimore residents and practitioners offer foundations a practical roadmap for investing in neighborhoods: listen first, address funding barriers, build partnerships, ...
Why Do Social Change Collectives Struggle to Stay Connected?
Shared commitment to an issue does not automatically create a durable collective. This post explores the relationship dynamics that can ...
How Can Civic Institutions Keep Immigrants Connected to Public Life?
Fear and immigration concerns can pull families away from public life. This post shows how civic institutions and funders can ...
Who’s Not Back to School? What It Takes to Help Young People Reconnect to School and Work
Millions of young people are outside both school and work. This post offers practical lessons on belonging, housing stability, workforce ...
What Do Foundation Leaders, Nonprofits, and Evaluators Need to Know Before Using AI-powered Analytics?
AI is often used as a catchall term, but different AI-powered tools answer different questions. This post explains the practical ...
How Can Organizations Use AI-powered Analytics to Learn Faster Without Losing Human Judgment?
Six practical lessons show how AI-powered analytics can expand evaluation capacity, speed feedback, and support continuous learning — without treating ...
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