Call it the Nonprofit Startup Catch 22. Mission-driven organizations need seed funding to build infrastructure and get their projects off the ground, yet most grantmaking bodies seem to have a battery of requirements before they’ll sign off on a grant: evidence of impact, low overhead percentages, measurements of scaleability potential…the list goes on. And, as [...]
The African Diaspora: Impact and Trends
This week’s blog was written by our intern, Diana Demba. Globalization became a buzz word in the early 2000s, and since then has revolutionized societies all around the world. With the invention of new technologies in transport and communication, physical and virtual boundaries have been removed as people, ideas, products, and technology become increasingly mobile [...]
Segal Family Foundation:
Changing the “impenetrable black box”
approach to grant making
You send an e-newsletter and aspire to a 50% open rate. You purchase Google Adwords and watch your website analytics hoping for a spike. No matter what the medium or message, everyone wants their efforts to connect with their audiences, be successful, and inspire a reaction. In our work with the Segal Family Foundation over [...]
Recognizing Earth Day at ConceptLink
You certainly don’t have to convince us that Africa is a land of splendor. While our work gears us more towards admiring the beauty of our clients’ passion for their work, we’re taking a step back this week to absorb the striking natural magnificence of the continent we love. We’ve curated these beautiful photos that [...]
Three Nonprofit Trends on the Rise
This week’s blog was written by our Research Fellow, Maraki Shimelis Kebede As with most fields, the nonprofit workforce is a highly dynamic one. With the incessant need to be more efficient, more effective, more transparent, and more accountable, nonprofits must stretch limited funds and minimize “overhead” – that dreaded number that, unfortunately, often determines [...]
