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Blogs & Articles

Charitable Ventures’ Blogs & Articles section shares insights, updates, and thought leadership on nonprofit innovation, community impact, and social sector trends.

Topics We Cover

Our blog explores key themes and issues shaping the nonprofit and social impact sectors, including:

  • Nonprofit funding and grantmaking trends
  • Fiscal sponsorship and nonprofit incubation
  • Community needs assessments and data-driven decision-making
  • Collective impact and cross-sector collaboration
  • Public contract administration and large-scale program management
  • Relief funding, disaster response, and emergency grant programs
  • Social equity, community development, and policy change

Explore Our Latest Insights

Browse our latest articles to stay informed about nonprofit innovation, community impact initiatives, and emerging trends shaping the social sector.

$2M Initiative Launched to Lift Economic Justice Efforts in Orange County

With recent funding from The James Irvine Foundation, CV launches the OC Economic Justice Initiative, enhancing regional nonprofits' capacity for economic justice.
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Strengthening Community Outreach in Orange County

Charitable Ventures partnered with Good Work Collaborative to create a tool that can help Orange County design comprehensive funding and outreach strategies.
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Project Kinship Celebrates Launch from Charitable Ventures Incubation Platform

After nearly nine years of dynamic partnership, Project Kinship has emerged as its own 5013c entity, marking a new era of hope, re-entry, and rebuilding.
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Trust-Based Philanthropy: A Welcome Shift from Patronage to Partnership

What would it look like if we were able to embrace our donors and investors as true partners, and not as revenue sources? Our blog from CEO Anne Olin explores this new vision of partnership.
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Built on Solid Rock: Moving Equity Work from the Margins to the Center

If we want the important work of justice and equity to serve as centering principles of our society, we must move the work from the margins to the center of the nonprofit sector.
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Announcing the Nonprofit Essentials Series In Partnership with Adelante Partners

Charitable Ventures is thrilled to partner with the consultancy Adelante Partners to bring needed skills and capacity to the region’s frontline nonprofit organizations.
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Articles for the Nonprofit Sector

Our content covers a wide range of topics, including nonprofit funding strategies, fiscal sponsorship, collective impact initiatives, relief fund administration, and community development efforts across Southern California. 

Here you will find perspectives from our team and partners on the evolving challenges and opportunities facing nonprofits, funders, and public agencies.

Through timely updates and in-depth analysis, we aim to provide valuable context for understanding the changing landscape of the nonprofit sector and the collaborative work required to address complex community needs.

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