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Listening for the Beat of Change: Conversational Grantmaking Where Accountability Demands Listening

Blackbaud

According to Kataly CEO Nwamaka Agbo, this includes resourcing frontline organizations and the broader ecosystem they rely on, lawyers, coaches, storytellers, and policy allies. Kataly’s approach is grounded in the belief that scarcity is a manufactured constraint that undermines long-term movement building.

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What Will Trump’s 2025 Presidency Mean for the Grant-Seeking Community: Potential Shifts and Focus Areas

GrantNews

While the exact policy directions remain to be seen, President-elect Trump’s previous term may offer insights into potential focus areas that could shape the landscape in 2025 and beyond. This was particularly impactful in high-demand fields such as technology and manufacturing.

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19 socially responsible companies to inspire your CSR efforts

Bonterra

To support their focus on human rights, they diversify their supplier base, support entrepreneurs in underserved communities, and have developed a human rights and ethics policy. Examples of corporate social responsibility initiatives Fair trade: Over 90% of Patagonia’s line of products are manufactured in Fair Trade Certified factories.

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Learn To Say Yes!

Planned Giving

You don’t create the world’s most popular computing products, revolutionize the manufacturing process or invent the airplane by playing it safe. ” Nonprofits create gift acceptance policies for a reason—some gifts just won’t work, or are not worth the potential complications. But history shows us otherwise.

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Due diligence is a two-way street

Strategic Grants

Some for-purpose organisations will have clear guidelines in their gift acceptance policy and related processes to effectively make this assessment. This case highlights what can happen when due diligence and gift acceptance processes are not established or followed.

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Refurbishment Arrives On the Big Stage

Tech Soup

It is the United States' first comprehensive policy that addresses the proper handling of used or discarded electronics devices. The policy is designed to increase industrial capacity in electronics recycling, refurbishment, and remanufacturing to increase the number of US-based green jobs and the safe handling of discarded electronics.

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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

So American Alliance’s alleged injuries don’t show “a real controversy with real impact on real persons” among its membership… Rather, they reflect an attempt to manufacture an ‘injury’ to allow American Alliance to challenge the Contest. That is not enough for standing.”