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Collective Fundraising DIY Guide
Full text linkINN's Collective Fundraising DIY Guide is a resource to help newsrooms raise funds collaboratively. Collective fundraising can serve as a way for nonprofit organizations to work together to raise more philanthropic revenue by extending the reach of their message, sharing resources and combining their strengths.As leaders in the news industry, INN sees an opportunity in the ability of collective fundraising to help newsrooms raise more philanthropic revenue to sustain their work. The 23-page DIY Guide is structured around a set of two pillars: establishing the foundations and ways of working. The guide includes specific activities and tasks for newsrooms to complete, such as forming membership of the collective and setting up infrastructure for governance and decision making. The DIY guide also includes supplemental resources like discussion questions and sample documents like Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs).Collective fundraising is collaborative, adaptive and practical for nonprofit organizations. The guide was built in partnership with Collective Mind, a social enterprise that uses the power of networks to create social change through collective action
Shifting the Narrative: Abortion Care and the Limits of Population Discourse in the 1970s
Full text linkThis report highlights how abortion care in the 1970s was sometimes strategically intertwined with then prevailing concerns over a supposed "demographic explosion," while still prioritizing women's health and their autonomy. It focuses on two clinics that opened with the goal of offering comprehensive reproductive care: one in Washington, DC in 1971, and the other in Bogotá, Colombia in 1977. The first was founded by businessman and former Population Council employee Harry Levin, while the second was established by his like-minded close friend, Colombian Ob/Gyn physician Jorge Villarreal. Documents held at the Rockefeller Archive Center reveal that both clinics embodied their founders' commitment to providing abortion services that were not only safe but also humane, dignified, and accessible to all women. Simultaneously, these records show how Levin and Villarreal pushed the boundaries of what was of interest to the population control establishment. By carefully framing their goals, they managed to compellingly request—though not always secure—funding from the Population Council. They appealed to arguments rooted in the demographic discourse, while at the same time separating themselves from its often-unspoken racist undertones. Levin and Villarreal's ability to strategically adapt population control rhetoric to support their clinics demonstrates not only their ingenuity but also highlights how malleable and contested that discourse remained at the time. In sum, Levin and Villarreal's negotiations with the Population Council reveal that this organization was far from monolithic and helps us better understand the complex perspectives of key figures such as its founder, John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Philanthropy Brief: Direct Air Capture (DAC)
Full text linkDirect Air Capture (DAC) filters carbon dioxide directly from ambient air and stores it permanently underground. It is an emerging technology with high costs but also long-term potential for durable removals.This factsheet offers funders an overview of opportunities, risks, and entry points
Driving Innovative, Relationship-Rich Change: The 2024 International Conference of the POD Network
Full text linkHigher education faces significant challenges, and Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) are a critical partner for senior leadership in both advising and addressing them. Educational developers who lead CTLs have demonstrated expertise in two key areas essential for innovative learning: research on student learning and research on faculty as learners. Their success often stems from a relationship-rich approach
World Happiness Report 2025
Full text linkIn this year's issue, we focus on the impact of caring and sharing on people's happiness. Like 'mercy' in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, caring is "twice-blessed" – it blesses those who give and those who receive. In this report, we investigate both of these effects: the benefits to the recipients of caring behaviour and the benefits to those who care for others
The Rockefeller Foundation in Peru: Agricultural Innovation Prior to Agrarian Reform, 1950-1970
Full text linkThroughout the mid-twentieth century, the Rockefeller Foundation invested generously in agricultural universities and research in Peru. In so doing, it promoted the idea that such investments could help the nations of the Global South feed fast-growing populations and, in turn, minimize the appeal of alternative political systems, especially Communism. In Peru, however, the Rockefeller Foundation mainly funded projects and institutions in the coastal capital of Lima. Communities of small farmers in the Andean highlands rarely saw the benefits of these investments. For example, Peru's 1956 Commission on Agrarian Reform and Housing, which the Rockefeller Foundation helped sponsor, was made up of elite Limeños whose interests differed markedly from those of Andean communities. The poor extension and adaptation of technology to the Andes helps explain why, in 1969, Peru's left-leaning military government began a radical agrarian reform program that sought to combine land redistribution with agricultural innovation in a way that would benefit the small farmers of the Andes
New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit 2nd Edition
Full text linkThe toolkit is a free resource that includes a collection of readings, workshops, and exercises aimed at helping audiences reimagine masculinities, raise awareness about the concept of healthy masculinities, and provide resources that promote self-awareness, healthy relationships, and thriving families and communities. It is meant to serve as a guide for facilitators to frame and engage in conversations and activities around healthy masculinities
Collaborating to BUILD Transformational Change: A Shifting Systems Initiative Summary Report
Full text linkNo one person can change the deeply entrenched levers of power that guide and control our global systems. The good news: Through collaboration, relationship-building, and deep levels of trust, philanthropy has the tools to transform these systems of power.As part of this work, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors' Shifting Systems Initiative gathered important stakeholders on the margins of the 79th United Nations General Assembly for its latest workshop, "Collaborating to BUILD Transformational Change."Using lessons gleaned from the Ford Foundation's BUILD initiative and its longtime leader, Kathy Reich, this workshop explored actionable pathways to accelerate systems change and shared key insights and best practices with participants. Critically, this session dove into both the what and the how of what philanthropy must do to enact change of this magnitude. Through rich conversations, the workshop surfaced a number of important themes, topics, and insights that are summarized below.The WhatShifting to trust-based philanthropy remains paramount to overall long-term success in systems-change work. Without fully trusting grantees' ability to know what their own communities need, the philanthropic sector cannot hope to shift systems worldwide.Philanthropy is not done in a vacuum. It is the work of collaboration, humility, and resource-sharing. A shared future involves us all. Philanthropy must forge its path together.Philanthropy must also be flexible if it is to succeed. Shifting systems on this scale inevitably involves failure. Embrace that failure and learn from it.Incremental changes are positive, but philanthropy is at an inflection point where it must do more. To truly improve the lives of the communities it serves, philanthropy must pivot to long-term, systemic, and transformational changes.Systems change is complex and cross-sectoral. It involves actors from government, philanthropy, civil service, and industry working in tandem.The HowArts and culture have a unique way of producing systems change that other mediums lack. Art has the power to tug at society's emotional heartstrings, and humans oftentimes respond more viscerally to emotional language rather than rational appeals. To change systems, we must open our imaginations, think creatively, and speak to peoples' hearts.Narratives and the stories society tells itself play an enormous role in creating lasting change. To effectively shift systems, philanthropy must alter some of these narratives – particularly around the inclusion of the Global South and indigenous cultures.If philanthropy changes its tactics, it must also adopt new imaginative ways to evaluate a new view of success that incorporate the intangibility of some metrics
Women Give: 20 years of Gender & Giving Trends
Full text linkWomen Give 2024 examines how giving by women and men in the U.S. has changed since the turn of the century. Numerous events have transformed society over the last two decades-including the attacks on September 11, 2001; the Great Recession; and more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. These events have also indelibly changed charitable giving, influencing who gives, how much, and to which causes.This study seeks to understand these giving changes by describing the gendered trends in philanthropy taking place from the turn of the century through the pandemic. Â
Building Bridges Through the Arts, Media and Humanities
Full text linkThis report explores the role of arts, media, and humanities in fostering inclusivity and social cohesion and highlights the need for bridge-building strategies to address contemporary challenges