Merging finance and social impact to make a better world
Are you a nonprofit leader, grant writer, or program director trying to prove your impact and secure more funding? You’re not alone—and we’ve got something to help. The 2025 Social Impact Benchmark Report is here, offering data-backed insights to help you measure your effectiveness, communicate your value, and make smarter strategic decisions.
Stay Ahead of Policy Changes with FiscalNote Need to track legislation, regulations, and policy trends in real time? FiscalNote is a powerful legislative tracking and policy intelligence platform that helps governments, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations monitor, analyze, and act on policy developments across all levels of government. With robust data and real-time alerts, FiscalNote empowers …
Designed to support policymakers, employers, and community leaders, it helps you understand the true cost of meeting basic needs—housing, food, transportation, healthcare, and more—in every county and metro area.
Looking for powerful, cloud-based tools to help your team stay connected and productive? Google Workspace offers a suite of free, easy-to-use apps—including Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Gmail, and Meet—designed to help teams collaborate in real time, from anywhere. Perfect for government agencies, nonprofits, and social impact organizations, Google Workspace brings people, data, and communication together …
Looking for a simple, visual way to manage projects and collaborate with your team? Trello is a free, intuitive project management tool that helps individuals and organizations plan, track, and complete work efficiently. Whether you’re leading a government team, running a nonprofit, or managing community initiatives, Trello makes organizing tasks seamless and transparent. Key Features …
Are you a nonprofit, social enterprise, or government agency looking for funding to support impactful projects? Finding the right grants and funding sources can be challenging, but we’ve done the work for you. This guide highlights 10 key funding opportunities designed to support social impact initiatives, from community development and education to healthcare and sustainability. …
You are interested in giving to charity. But you might not know exactly where to start. What are the rules around tax deductions? What organizations are true charities? And how can you be sure your money is being used effectively? This Ultimate Guide to Charitable Donations will walk you through all the ins and outs of charitable giving, specifically from an individual donor perspective.
The world is getting closer to a more sustainable model for pay-for-success arrangements. Reinvestment Fund, out of Philadelphia, announced a $10 million fund last year to support pay-for-success projects in a portfolio approach that would diversify investors from the risk of any single project.
Is your nonprofit’s technology stuck in the 20th century? Does this hamstring you in executing your ambitious, yet difficult, fundraising strategy?
Data collection and use is a massively growing field with increasingly more technologies and companies dedicated to it. As a nonprofit, you’re often at the mercy of funding constraints that limit you from going out and buying the flashy new system or paying a data engineer to help make sense of all the information available to you. But that shouldn’t stop you from trying. There are cultural factors that enable successful data usage, and once employed, can help skyrocket your ability to attract sustainable funding.
Around the world, innovative financing methods are being used to tackle social issues. Programs and organizations typically funded by grants are constantly at the mercy of governments who have trouble thinking past the next election cycle. As a result, when spending cuts need to be made governments typically look for the quickest fix – cutting social services.