Tracks to Success Archives

This is a GrantStation feature article that focuses on a particular grantmaker or philanthropic trend in order to keep you apprised of the latest “top of topic” subjects within the world of grantseeking, management, and philanthropy.


Trusting in 2024: Is it possible?

This year, I decided to forgo my annual philanthropic predictions for the coming year (2024) and dive into an issue that I think we all struggle with: trust. Who do you trust to tell you the truth…

2023 Trends in Types of Support

Can the type of support you are requesting, general operating versus special projects for example, affect the outcome of your grant request? Decades of grantmaking reports clearly indicate that…

2023 Trends in Philanthropy

From its inception in the 15th and 16th centuries until the 1900s, philanthropy was a conservative venture. Then, between 1930 and 1980, philanthropy was truly redefined, as, according to the…

A Study on Collaborative Leadership Yields Data and Hope

Collaborative leadership is a topic that comes up frequently within the nonprofit realm. It's sometimes referred to by other names, including relational, distributed, collective, and shared…

Nonprofits, Activism, and the Political Divide

Diversity and inclusion are generally accepted as valuable goals within nonprofit circles, but out in the wider world the concept is under broad and coordinated attack. The U.S. Supreme Court…

Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Association Boards

Diversity and inclusion are generally accepted as valuable goals within nonprofit circles, but out in the wider world the concept is under broad and coordinated attack. The U.S. Supreme Court…

Opening the Future of Philanthropy

Influenced by events of recent years, many observers believe that the charitable sector can achieve its maximum potential only with a rethinking of the processes behind funding decisions.

Aiming for Equity in the Nonproft World

The issue of employee pay in the nonprofit world has been been written about in Forbes, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and other top level media outlets. It's no surprise that the topic is on…

The Measurable Impact of Community Engaged Work

Community engagement is seemingly everywhere these days. It's increasingly important in the corporate, political, academic, and philanthropic realms. Community, in this context, is sometimes…

The Balance of Power in Knowledge Creation

The old saying goes that knowledge is power. But before knowledge exists, its creation is power. Not long ago very few non-Asian Americans knew that Japanese Americans were imprisoned in…

Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Breaking the Cycle of History

A 2019 Pew survey revealed that nearly 80% of U.S. adults are concerned about how companies use their digital data. The pervasive user agreements that underpin data mining, and which indemnify…

International Remittances and the Nonprofit Sector

When workers abroad send part of their earnings to family back in their home countries, these transfers are known as remittances. Payments of this type have been growing rapidly in recent years,…