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Did you know illnesses resulting from water contamination are the leading cause of human sickness and death worldwide? In just the past decade, more children have died due to a lack of access to safe drinking water than all the people who have died in battle since World War II.
Even when safe…
Christine Zachai is principal at Forward Philanthropy.
Recently I was sitting in Manhattan with four extraordinary women. Down the table from me was Jennifer Buffet, president and cochair of the NoVo Foundation; Catherine B. Reynolds, chair and CEO of the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation; Josefina Vázquez, executive director of the…
The Council on Foundations (COF) recently released the 2011 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report. The sample includes 910 total foundations of which 544 are COF members. As Rick Cohen notes on his piece about the survey, the survey suffers from the limitations of self-reporting, as do most all of…
Niki Jagpal is research and policy director at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). This article is also posted at NCRP’s blog, keeping a close eye…
“The nonprofit sector as a whole has the opportunity to harness the power of innovation to improve the quality of service delivery.” That’s one of the key findings from “Unleashing Innovation: Using Everyday Technology to Improve Nonprofit Services,”a new research…
Bill Linder-Scholer, principal at Linder-Scholer Consulting and former executive director, ADC Foundation
For more information on the research, contact Amy Wagner of MAP at awagner@mapfornonprofits.org.
Over the past six years, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with a set of small, young community foundations in under-resourced parts of California as they aim to grow faster, smarter, and increase the positive impact they are having in their communities. With Irvine’s Community…
Anne Vally is senior program officer for special initiatives at The James Irvine Foundation. This article is also posted at The James Irvine Foundation’s blog, News & Insights.