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Demonstrating Impact
Show How Your Nonprofit Is Making a Difference: 10 Dos and Don’ts
Tips from experts that can help you measure results, share them in meaningful and inspiring ways, and avoid common pitfalls. -
Social Services
Groups That Serve the Homeless Could Help More if They Measured Success Differently
The number of meals served, beds provided, or classes offered doesn’t indicate success at reducing homelessness. -
Measuring Impact
With 200,000 Nonprofits Rated, the New Charity Navigator Aims High, Falls Short
Once obsessed with overhead, the evaluator wants to judge impact and more. Data, however, is scarce. -
Charity Ratings
Charity Navigator Stars Can Boost Donations — but Nonprofits Might Game the System
Contributions can rise 6 to 12 percent for nonprofits that climb to three or four stars, but they sometimes alter their spending patterns for better ratings — or change the way they classify expenses. -
Environmental Justice
Philanthropy’s Response to Flint Offers Lessons for Dealing With Water Crises — and Government Failures
Lessons from the city’s lead and water crisis are especially important now as other cities like Jackson and Baltimore struggle with drinking-water issues resulting from failing infrastructure and decades of disinvestment. -
Ideas
Giving Refugees Money Instead of Stuff Can Lead to Price Gouging — but It Doesn’t Have To
Refugees increasingly receive money from humanitarian agencies and organizations instead of food, clothing, and other items shipped from afar. This approach is intended to let refugees get more of what they need while also boosting local businesses. -
Environmental Giving
Living With Fire: Donors Want to Focus on Reducing Risk, Not on Disaster
Wealthy donors and foundations worried about wildfires are exploring ways to put the focus on resilience and risk reduction instead of disaster response. -
Grant Making
Fidelity Charitable Reports $7.3 Billion in Grants From Donor-Advised Funds
The organization reported 40 percent year-over-year growth in grant-making, with Doctors Without Borders USA as the top recipient. -
Results
Data-Driven Program Evaluation Hurts Equity Efforts, Say Critics
Foundations should rethink the way they measure success if they want to achieve progress, say advocates for change. -
Roundup
Key Research Findings for Fundraisers and Other Nonprofit Executives: Roundup
Why the language men use in grant proposals works better than what women write, why it’s important not to delay in making pitches to beneficiaries of services, how big a difference nonprofit transparency makes to donors, and other results from scholarly studies.