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April 22, 2025
Invite Communities In
How philanthropy can support nonprofits in times of crisis
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September 23, 2025
How Nonprofit Leaders Can Navigate Financial Uncertainty
For many nonprofit leaders, this is an unpredictable and chaotic time The simultaneous challenges of policy shifts and economic pressures are making...
Projects & Reports
June 17, 2025
2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey Findings
Essential, Enduring, and Under Strain: The Nonprofit Sector's Strength and Struggle in a Shifting Landscape
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August 8, 2025
Love Letter to Nonprofits
Dear Nonprofit Leaders and Changemakers, In a world where the distance between need and available resources continues to widen, your work has never...
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March 1, 2022
Our Strategic Innovation Fund: How Unrestricted Funding Opened Up New Ways of Working with Community-Centered Nonprofits
In 2020, MacKenzie Scott and the Ford Foundation provided substantial unrestricted grants to NFF – grants that seeded our Strategic Innovation...
Commentary
October 27, 2021
How to Fund Place-Based Partnerships, if We Want Them to Work
Originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly , October 27, 2021 During the early days of COVID in March 2020, members of Rocky Mountain Partnership, a...
Projects & Reports
June 18, 2021
Advancing Resilience and Community Health
Lessons Learned from Partnerships Between Networks of Community-Based Organizations and Healthcare Organizations The Advancing Resilience and...
Projects & Reports
January 19, 2021
California Pay for Success: Final Reflections
How Can Outcomes-Based Funding Advance Racial Equity
Blog
December 15, 2020
What being trusted by a donor means
I am excited to share that NFF is among the 384 organizations to receive support from MacKenzie Scott in a round of new grants announced today These...
Blog
December 3, 2020
Jewish Philanthropy Responds to COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis has challenged and changed every community With no warning, the spaces that bring people together were shut down, with no certain...
Blog
November 20, 2020
Four Ways to Overcome Partnership Hurdles and Address Social Determinants of Health
Juliette Price is the Chief Solutions Officer for Helgerson Solutions Group, a global consulting firm dedicated to the move to value in health and...
Projects & Reports
November 17, 2020
Investing in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Analysis for state Associations for Infant Mental Health ("AIMHs"), including financial sustainability recommendations
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August 3, 2020
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
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July 14, 2020
How Foundations Can Help Grantees Respond to COVID-19
Claire Knowlton recently participated in a conversation with a group of foundation leaders to discuss what nonprofit leaders need right now to...
Commentary
April 17, 2020
Why Grantmakers Need to Break Their Restriction Habit—Permanently
Originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly , April 17, 2020 Recently, hundreds of grantmakers have lifted grant restrictions to allow nonprofits to...
Commentary
April 8, 2020
Who Will Pay for Partnerships that Address Social Determinants of Health?
Originally published in Grantmakers In Health , April 8, 2020 The importance of addressing social determinants of health in driving health outcomes...