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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

application and report writing), allowing smaller grassroots groups to focus their energies on on-the-ground priorities. The Ford Foundation’s $1 billion investment in its BUILD program is one of the most significant examples of integrating such organizational strengthening into grantmaking on a large scale.

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In Defense of Big Bets

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When we awarded the first $100 million grant in 2017 to a collaboration between the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop —both highly experienced and large organizations—we provided them with six months to outline plans, with support from our expert advisors, for how they might effectively absorb and deploy the funds.

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits pay staff members to do the work of organizing, advocacy, strategic communication, research, and more that creates the necessary infrastructure to harness movement energy productively. Social movements are fluid; they adapt how they mobilize everyday people as movement energy crests and falls.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

You helped launch the National Health Plan Collaborative, aimed at reducing racial and ethnic disparities within large health plans, and you also contributed to the first National Healthcare Quality & Disparities reports. KF: These are established schools of personal and organizational development.

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