Since the 2016 election, Americans have suddenly woken up to the importance of “rural America.” Academics are looking to better understand and study populations, reporters are featuring countless stories on people living in rural areas and governments are looking to increase support to these areas. The populist upsurge forced our attention away from the heavily […]
Over the past year, SmarterGive’s has worked with the Gisela B Hogan Foundation to develop a new strategy focused on early childhood. For our first grant in this new space we sponsored a track, “Addressing Adversity in Early Childhood” at Boston’s Social Innovation Forum, a local non-profit incubator and capacity builder. Early childhood is a new […]
In the United States, there are more than 1.5 million registered non-profits. The number is overwhelming, and it means as a donor, you have to weed through a lot of organizations to determine where to give. Most donors want to support high performing organizations, but it is difficult to assess the performance of an organization […]
Do you know that not all dollars that non-profits receive are equal? In fact, where dollars in the social sector come from is actually quite important. Private philanthropic dollars are unique and provide a distinctive opportunity for leverage when philanthropists take advance of this opportunity.
The majority of social sector activities are funded by two sources, […]