Consider how radically technology has altered the business landscape over the past several years, from software as a service (SaaS) platforms that make it easier for employees to communicate and collaborate in real time to the explosion of digital marketing efforts. Digital innovations have just as much transformative potential for nonprofits as businesses, but the…
One of the clearest trends on the institutional side of the nonprofit sector is the push toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments. As we observed in a previous blog post, philanthropic investors have never had a wider range of options when it comes to building their portfolios, and…
Family offices exist to help wealthy clients manage their resources, which means they’re often responsible for allocating philanthropic contributions. Considering the fact that these offices manage trillions of dollars in assets and the vast majority are engaged in philanthropy, their investments have an opportunity to make a powerful impact. This is why it’s essential for…
The ground was already prepared for these shifts. Charitable giving has been rising consistently in the United States, while consumer behavior has become more and more socially and environmentally conscious. These trends have driven and coincided with rapidly shifting attitudes in the private sector—companies increasingly recognize that they can’t afford to ignore pressing social issues. Executives are…
Our past two blog posts have discussed what purpose-driven connections are and how they can be used to make communities (and the nonprofit sector itself) more equitable. Now we’ll turn to the operational aspects of purpose-driven connections: how organizations can establish and sustain them, as well as how they can be used to scale impact. …
In our previous blog post, we defined purpose-driven connections and examined why they’re so essential for the nonprofit sector. Purpose-driven connections are always focused on securing positive outcomes for communities, which means organizations have to incorporate feedback from a wide range of stakeholders and implement programs that are directly aligned with a community’s most pressing…