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Empower Your Philanthropy With These Four Questions

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Transform your giving and accelerate your speed to impact. Questions are surprisingly powerful. The right questions spark learning, fuel innovation, create clarity, build trust, mitigate risk, and save money. That sounds pretty good, right? I believe that achieving a transformational impact as a philanthropist starts with asking the right questions. In my book Delusional Altruism, I […]

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Increasing the Value of Philanthropy Membership Organizations

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Philanthropy membership associations were made for times like these. Shining bright these past eight months, they’ve heroically grabbed their members’ hands and illuminated pathways forward. They’ve helped members navigate the pandemic and prepare for recovery, offering real-time learning, sharing best practices, creating rapid-response funds, soliciting critical information through surveys, supporting collaboration across government and business,

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Focus and Re-energize with Four Powerful Questions

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Feeling uncomfortable? You’re not alone. We’re all being asked to stretch and grow these days as we navigate a new world. Along with COVID-19, we’re facing divisive political rhetoric, and the growing needs of a struggling civic society. Add to that the challenges of a recession and a deafening cry for action to condemn racism

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Five Ways Philanthropists Can Turn Adversity into Opportunity

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Nobody ever chooses the hard road, but it has a way of finding us. And when it does, sometimes the only choice we have is in how we respond. Interestingly, we never know exactly what we’re capable of until we’re tested. So, especially for philanthropists and other change-makers, during this new world of head-spinning challenges,

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7 Lessons Donors Can Learn From MacKenzie Scott’s Surprise $1.7 Billion Gift

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On July 28, MacKenzie Scott surprised the world by announcing she had made $1.7 billion in donations to 116 nonprofit organizations. They were selected for the transformative work they were doing and to support leaders driving change in a variety of issues. Scott is the richest woman in America, with a net worth of about $62 billion. Her

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Amid Today’s Deep Social Anxiety, Philanthropists Must Recognize Their Blind Spots

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In philanthropy circles, people very rarely, if ever, call each other out for being delusional. And that’s exactly why I wrote my book Delusional Altruism: Why Philanthropists Fail To Achieve Change and What They Can Do To Transform Giving.  Briefly, the book is about human behaviors we’re not even aware of that get in the way

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