What Yale Got Right That Other Nonprofits Keep Getting Wrong
The nonprofit sector's instinct when public trust declines is to improve its messaging. Yale tried something harder and more honest — self-examination.
By Greg Berman
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Foundations Created the Jargon Crisis. Here’s How They Can Fix It.
Every touchpoint in the grant-making process — from letters of inquiry to progress reports — trains nonprofits to write in jargon. Funders have the power to change that pattern.
By Matt Watkins
Contributor
Social Media Jury Verdicts Show the Power of Supporting Research
Landmark cases against Meta and YouTube on social media addiction demonstrate why philanthropy needs to think bigger about research funding.
By A.J. D’Amico
Contributor
How to Use AI Without Losing Your Organization’s Soul
AI isn't the problem — it's what the technology reveals about nonprofits that lack a clear voice or strategy.
By Michelle Flores Vryn
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How to Fix Online Giving Platforms Without Cutting Off Donors
Three fundraising leaders argue the sector needs accountability standards for giving platforms — not legislation that could cut off billions in donations.
Why Jewish Staff Are Quietly Leaving Progressive Nonprofits
Talented employees are exiting because groups fail to acknowledge antisemitism as an equity issue and turn a blind eye to hurtful and one-sided rhetoric. Leaders must stop ignoring this problem.
By Sharon Leslie
Contributor
Stop Reinventing AI Policy. Start Funding What Already Works.
Funders keep chasing the next big AI idea — while groups that enforce existing laws that could hold AI accountable are starved of support.
By Merve Hickok and Marc Rotenberg
Why the Ford Foundation Has Committed $60M in New Funding to Protect Elections
Ford leader Heather Gerken, a constitutional law scholar, outlines a grant-making strategy designed to battle polarization’s gale-force winds.
By Heather Gerken
Contributor
Trust Is No Substitute for Proof That Philanthropy Is Working
The Winthrop Rockefeller trustees were right to go to court. Trust-based philanthropy can’t excuse boards from measuring results, honoring fiduciary duty, or proving that charitable dollars are doing real public good.
Nonprofits Sit on a Gold Mine of Stories. It’s Time to Use Them.
Storytelling can reveal behavioral patterns and systemic failures that quantitative metrics often miss. I speak from experience. Telling my story helped me win freedom.
By David Gaspar
Contributor