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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

Philanthropic foundations bias heavily towards granting large $ amounts exclusively to organizations (not individuals), meaning there are few existing avenues to fund promising people.

Molly Mielke • Scaling the personal grantmaking sector · Molly Mielke

The Ford Foundation was so committed to the enterprise that it established a separate nonprofit dedicated to the cause. “Learning is the new growth industry,” exulted its president, Harold Gores.

Margaret O'Mara • The Code

The Education for Employment Foundation is not an American charity hoping to do good in faraway lands. It is a global movement.

Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Managing the Non-Profit Organization

Peter F. Drucker

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By the mid-20th century, foundations had reached the height of their power and influence, triggering a congressional investigation into whether foundations were manipulating public opinion and thought. The lawyer Rene Wormser, who wrote the final report, described foundations as a “cartel” that threatened to direct our entire intellectual and cultu... See more

Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines

Seed money from the Ford Foundation provided what appeared to be limitless growth for performing arts groups, spawning new foundations to fund an ever-increasing number of projects. Ford’s unique invention, the challenge grant, saw great success in raising money by asking donors to match foundation giving.

Blair Tindall • Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

GitCoin Grants, connect sponsors (small donors and grants) using a "plural funding" formula that accounts not just for the total funding received, but also the diversity of its source across individual contributors and connected social groups.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

At the risk-averse Gates Foundation, officials have asked aides to put next to nothing in emails or other written materials, especially anything that Trump officials could take out of context. Some employees have locked down public social media accounts and shifted much of their work to Telegram or Signal, encrypted messaging apps. (Alex Reid, a sp... See more