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What Will Be Philanthropy’s Next Chapter?

May 10, 2016 By Nell Edgington 1 Comment

I am often asked by nonprofit leaders, “Where are the funders who understand what nonprofits really need?” Well, they were at the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference (#2016GEO) last week in Minneapolis. After attending the conference and curating a great group of bloggers who recapped each day (you can read Phil Buchanan’s Day 1 post here, […]

GEO Guest Post: What Philanthropy Wants To Be

May 5, 2016 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Note: As I mentioned last week, I am at the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference this week curating a group of bloggers. The third blogger is Mae Hong, Vice President of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Her guest post is below. And for a full rundown on the conference check out #2016GEO. I can’t get the Buffalo Springfield lyrics […]

GEO Guest Post: Bringing Equity to the Forefront in Grantmaking

May 4, 2016 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Note: As I mentioned last week, I am at the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference this week curating a group of bloggers. Next up is Trista Harris, President of the Minnesota Council on Foundations. Her guest post is below. And don’t forget you can also follow the conference from afar on Twitter #2016GEO. Day two of […]

GEO Guest Post: Counter-Culture — Focusing Internally to Make More Impact Externally

May 3, 2016 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Note: As I mentioned last week, I am at the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference this week curating a group of bloggers. First up is Phil Buchanan, President of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). His guest post is below. In full disclosure, some of the foundations he mentions below are clients or funders of […]

Blogging the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference

April 28, 2016 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

I’m really excited to announce that I will be doing something a little different on the blog next week. I am attending the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conference in Minneapolis May 2nd – 4th, and GEO has asked me to curate a set of bloggers to report on the conference. I have rounded up a […]

Getting More Transparent About Foundation Results

March 10, 2016 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

Note: I was asked by The Center for Effective Philanthropy to review their latest research report, Sharing What Matters: Perspectives on Foundation Transparency, released in late February, and provide my thoughts about it for their on-going blog series on the report. Below is my post which originally appeared on the CEP blog.   Sharing What Matters: Perspectives on […]

Learning From Philanthropy’s Past: An Interview with the HistPhil Blog

November 10, 2015 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

In today’s Social Velocity interview I’m very excited to be talking with the co-founders and editors of the new History of Philanthropy blog: Benjamin Soskis, Stanley Katz, and Maribel Morey. The HistPhil blog launched this past June and focuses on how history can shed light on current philanthropic issues and practice. Because how can we hope to create […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: September 2015

October 1, 2015 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

In September there was some surprising good news about climate change. Yes, you read that right. We are perhaps, slowly, starting to address that problem (mind blowing, huh?). And in other news, there was a call for funders to help nonprofits become better fundraisers and some tools to help nonprofits use data in that pursuit. Add to […]

Guest Post: What Funders and Nonprofits Can Do To Solve the Sector’s Talent Troubles

August 12, 2015 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Note: As I mentioned earlier, I am taking a few weeks away from the blog to relax and reconnect with the world outside of social change. But I am leaving you in the incredibly capable hands of a rockstar set of guest bloggers. Next up is Kathy Reich. Kathy is Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Director at […]

10 Great Social Innovation Reads: June 2015

July 9, 2015 By Nell Edgington Leave a Comment

June was an amazing month in the world of social change. Most notably, the long fight for marriage equality was won with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. It is moments like these where the long, arduous road towards social change makes sense. But that wasn’t all that was going on in the busy month of June. […]

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