SEASON 1
The billion-dollar question of corporate giving
Businesses give billions to not-for-profits every year. But what if the way you donate hurts instead of helps?
Businesses give billions to not-for-profits every year. But what if the way you donate hurts instead of helps?
Your business makes donations to a nonprofit, or plans to do so.
Avoid creating roadblocks to impact by the way you give.
To make the biggest impact you can with your donation.
The link between the billions of dollars that businesses are giving and impact is not straightforward. In many cases, corporate donors may hinder instead of help. Businesses that are giving need to ask some fundamental questions about the impact they are making, and what they can do to make sure they are not contributing to funder-created roadblocks.Is your business clear on what “impact” means?
This is part two of our series on the billion-dollar question of corporate giving. Businesses give billions to not-for-profits every year. But what if the way you donate hurts instead of helps? In this episode, we look at unrestricted funding as an alternative corporate giving model: with case studies about social enterprise Thankyou and nonprofit iDE Global. The episode features insights from interviewed guests Peter Yao (Thankyou), Nadia Campos (iDE Global) and Andrew Davies (B Lab).
This is part two of our series on the billion dollar question of corporate giving. In this episode, we look at...
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Allow room in the budget for the nonprofit to undertake reporting, and be clear on what they are measuring.
Put in the time to listen to grantees and understand their approach. Seek to explore their own preferences for funding.
How else can your business work for equality, and have a positive social and environmental impact through its core operations?
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CEP found only a small percentage of nonprofits received multi-year unrestricted funding. For those that did, it made up less than a quarter of their funding.
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