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To Achieve Greater Impact and Joy, Donors Need to Get Comfortable Talking About Money
One of the biggest barriers to giving, and giving effectively, is the American taboo around talking about money and wealth....
By Alex Johnston
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08 / 24 / 22
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Getting More out of your Giving: Two Mindset Shifts that Can Lead to Greater Meaning
Recently, a well-respected philanthropist came to me on a mission to find more meaning in her giving. Many like her...
By Mike Wang
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07 / 20 / 22
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To solve impossible problems, we need to fail more—a LOT more
I started 2022 with an impossible goal—a goal that felt so unlikely, so totally implausible, that it was laughable in its...
By Caitlin Hannon
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04 / 24 / 22
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Why working toward equity takes more than a checklist
In my neighborhood in Philadelphia, the effort to improve a physically dangerous, unattractive thoroughfare has come to illustrate one of...
By Mike Wang
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03 / 02 / 22
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3 Guidelines for Summer Learning in the COVID Era
Before any reports came out detailing the extent of the academic impact of the pandemic on students, education leaders were...
By Caitlin Hannon
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09 / 16 / 21
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Stimulus Funding and the Trap of Incremental Thinking: The role that funders can play in supporting transformational change
As school systems around the country manage the challenge of returning to in-person instruction amidst the surging Delta variant and...
By Mike Wang
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09 / 01 / 21
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5 ways to embrace risk in philanthropy for more impact and greater fulfillment
Over the past few years, a variety of leaders in philanthropy have been calling for funders to embrace more risk in their...
By Alex Johnston
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08 / 03 / 21
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Overcoming the barriers to transformative change in philanthropy
So you’ve decided you want your philanthropy to be more transformative. Or innovative. Or to better live up to your aspirations...
By Mike Wang
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06 / 21 / 21
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Trusted advisors are key to unlocking high-impact philanthropy
One of the biggest barriers to high impact philanthropy is the fact that the people with the most financial resources are rarely...
By Alex Johnston
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05 / 20 / 21
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Defining the problem is the key to long-lasting change
In America, we tend to believe that enough money can fix any problem. Who hasn’t sat around thinking, “If I...
By Caitlin Hannon
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04 / 09 / 21
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