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Article: Question of Sustainability - - Free
A FIO PARTNERS PERSPECTIVE: The Question of Sustainability: A Challenge for the Decision Makers who make Investments in the Nonprofit Sector
This article addresses the question of “sustainability” and what that truly means for funders and grantees. What we have learned from our experiences with clients may be helpful to any decision maker from any type of funder, whether foundation, corporate or government.
Article: Funders as Learning Organizations - - Free
A FIO PARTNERS PERSPECTIVE: Funders of the Nonprofit Sector as Learning Organizations
Funders have the ability to recognize performance gaps in nonprofits that guide areas for improvement. This article explores how this characteristic leads to a responsibility to learn from their practice, including conciously and purposefully look for what has been learned, capturing it, discussing it broadly with other practitioners in the field, and determining how learning should be applied to future practice.