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Foundations Can Increase Payouts: Here’s How

The current COVID-19 crisis has created immense and unexpected hardship among many foundation grantees and the people they serve. Foundations are stepping up by finding innovative ways to go beyond their normal grantmaking, removing restrictions on the use of grant funds, accelerating... Read more

Make the Pivot to Being a Purpose-Led Company: Introducing the Purpose Playbook

COVID-19 is one for the history books.

We’re still learning all the lessons of this pandemic, but one seems very clear: the system (financial, health care, education, employment, social, legal, political) is interconnected and so are its weaknesses. What started as a health crisis... Read more

The Impact of COVID-19 on CSR Funding for Indian NGOs

Acknowledgment: We would like to thank Arthan, Atma, Bridgespan, Caring Friends, Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University, Dalberg, Dasra, GiveIndia, GuideStar India, India Development Review, Samhita, Sattva Consulting, and TBL Consultancy Services for their... Read more

COVID-19: Companies, Let’s Get Practical

The COVID-19 crisis is forcing companies to reexamine their impact on society and their responsibility to all their stakeholders—employees, customers, communities, and partners alike. Companies are under immense pressure to respond quickly and many have already responded to their... Read more

How Health Foundations Can Address the Impacts of COVID-19 on Social Determinants of Health

As the public health and economic toll of the coronavirus spreads across the country, many health foundations are focused on mitigating the economic impact, which has caused ... Read more

Learning in a Time of Crisis

Many philanthropic organizations are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by developing rapid-response funding mechanisms, resources, and revised grant policies. This is requiring program staff and others to make extremely fast decisions and implement new policies and practices almost... Read more

What Can We Learn from Early Corporate Responses to COVID-19?

In my current role at FSG, I provide thought partnership to business leaders on the most effective ways to create social impact. I rely on our two decades of experience in this space as well as best practices I see in the field.

To keep things real, I often remind myself of my... Read more

Quakes and Tremors: What Foundations Can Do to Safeguard Childhood Wellbeing in the Wake of a Pandemic

The world is experiencing a series of quakes and tremors caused by a global pandemic. The quakes are the unprecedented shocks and strains we are witnessing in our health, economic, and education systems. Tremors, on the other hand, are far less obvious because their disruptions occur at... Read more

Pandemics and Perpetuity

As I write, Congress seems likely to approve a two-trillion dollar economic stimulus bill in response to COVID-19. Entire states are being ordered to shelter in... Read more

Foundations: Use Your Balance Sheet to Help

During this massive economic upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, government and media attention is focused on the impact on businesses, financial markets, and the economy, but the impact on our nonprofit sector will be worse. Direct service nonprofits will be stretched by the sudden... Read more

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