When for-profit intermediaries prioritize their own best interests, the results can be catastrophic for organizations. Recent scandals at Flipcause and GoFundMe offer grim case studies in what happens when the fundraising gatekeeper role is exploited.

In this installment of Ask Rhea, Rhea offers advice on how to rethink pitching to major donors and avoid negotiating against yourself.

Nonprofits may not see promoting voting as essential to their mission, but right now, there may be no more important civic duty.

Flipcause, a fundraising platform for nonprofits, withheld millions in donations and then filed for bankruptcy. Nonprofits that were counting on those funds are scrambling to keep programs running.

Philanthropy funds solutions but less often invests in the fundamental conditions that make those solutions possible. Among the most fragile of those conditions is the shared information ecosystem on which collective decision-making depends today.