Reflecting on our 70th Anniversary and What’s Ahead

Inside Philanthropy interview with our President Cathy Cha

Discussing our journey to 70 years, the key issue areas we’re currently funding, and more.

Philanthropy News Digest Q&A with Cathy Cha

Working with partners to advance equitable solutions

Reflecting on the urgent need to address racism and injustice as well as push for greater collaboration and diversity in philanthropy.

Forbes: Four Challenges Nonprofit Organizations Are Facing Today And How To Overcome Them

Forbes cites a report by Haas Jr. on how nonprofits can strengthen their fundraising.

A new article provides a step-by-step guide on how organizations can stand out and develop a strong fundraising platform.

Lightning in a Bottle: Building Lasting Growth from Viral Moments

How to adapt communications and fundraising to the moment.

Steps to leverage “lightning in a bottle” moments to build long-term power and sustainable organizations.

REACH Fund Awards $1.36 Million

Integrating Racial Equity in Nonprofit Work

The Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) Fund at Borealis Philanthropy announces the second year of grantmaking to 14 practitioners providing racial equity consultative services to nonprofit organizations.

Talent Justice

Investing in Equity in the Nonprofit Workforce

Helping funders and nonprofits invest in advancing intersectional racial equity across nonprofits.

Strengthening Racial Equity

The REACH Fund awarded $1.2 million to eight inaugural grantees

Borealis Philanthropy Launches New Fund to Strengthen Racial Equity in Nonprofits

Race to Lead

Barriers to Nonprofit Leadership for Women of Color

Study makes a powerful case for action against race and gender bias in the sector.

Resource Leaders Fellowship

Announcing The Inaugural Cohort of the Resource Leaders Fellowship

Participating fellows will get the tools and support they need to see themselves as changemakers in their own right, equipped to mobilize the people and resources that organizations need to transform communities for the better.

Fundraising Reimagined

Strengthen-ing Fundraising Capacity

How the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund is Supporting Innovation

Demos’ Racial Equity Transformation

Important Key Components, Process, and Lessons

Sabeel Rahman, Demos’ president, introduces their organization’s recent report on racial equity transformation.

Building a Race Equity Culture

What Does It Take for Organiza­tions to Move from “Awake” to “Woke” and Beyond?

This report offers a roadmap for making racial equity a core focus for organizations working for positive social change.

LGBT Identity and Race in the Nonprofit World

Report Documents Unique Challenges Facing LGBT People of Color in the Sector

The Building Movement Project explores the bias and discrimination experienced by LGBT people of color who work for nonprofits, and issues a call to action.

A Push and a Pathway

Race and Leadership in California

Frances Kunreuther and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, Co-Directors of the Building Movement Project, discuss recent report on diversifying nonprofit leadership.

Inside Out Fundraising

How to Create a Culture of Philanthropy by Treating Systems Instead of Symptoms

Five primary points of intervention for identifying problems and moving toward change.

Race and Nonprofit Leadership

A new take on why people of color are under­represented among nonprofit leaders

In Race to Lead report, the Building Movement Project calls on the social sector to remove stubborn structural barriers that keep people of color from rising to leadership positions.

Philanthropy in the First 100 Days

5 Questions Grant Makers Should Ask About the First 100 Days of Trump Era

Aaron Dorfman, Cathy Cha, Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, and Lateefah Simon present 5 questions philanthropy should consider in response to the current moment.

Fundraising Bright Spots

What can we learn from nonprofits that are beating the odds?

A new report explores common themes and practices across 16 social change organizations achieving breakthrough success in individual giving.

Beyond Fundraising

What Does it Mean to Build a Culture of Philan­thropy?

New paper drills down on an emerging concept in nonprofit fundraising.

What’s Culture Got to Do With It?

Report underscores the importance of organizational culture on effective philanthropy

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) highlights the “source codes” of foundation culture and spotlights the Fund’s values-based approach.

“I’m not asking for ME...”

Fundraising on the front lines of social change

Social justice leaders speak from the heart on the challenges and the rewards of fundraising — and offer clues from the inside about what it takes to do it right.

Change Starts Here

What happens when a nonprofit puts dedicated time and resources into investing in its people and itself?

The Center for Community Change, a longtime partner of the Fund, is experimenting with new ways of working to achieve mission, by looking inward.

Board Development

What difference do nonprofit boards make to their organization’s success?

Read the latest insights from the Haas Leadership Initiative on the essential role that nonprofit boards can play in strengthening their organizations, and, together with staff, the impact they can make.

The Important and the Urgent

Addressing the challenges of social change leadership

Social justice leaders share how they balance the important and the urgent, stay focused, and avoid burnout.