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    Understand fiscal hosting

    Online documentation from Open Collective Europe, a Belgian public utility foundation that acts as fiscal host for groups without their own legal body. It explains who does what among the collective, its administrators, the foundation and the Open Collective platform. It sets out the difference between a collective and a fund and what to check before applying. Grassroots and civic groups in Europe use it to decide whether fiscal hosting suits them.

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    What's the Point of the Revolution if We Can't Dance?

    A book based on the experiences of more than 100 women human rights activists around the world. It looks at how activists keep going over time, covering fear, hope, exhaustion, grief, pleasure, humour and spirituality, and practical problems such as lack of funding, conflict inside movements and burnout. Activists, movement groups and funders use it to talk about collective care. Free PDFs are available in 6 languages.

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    Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity: Core Concepts in Capacity Building

    A primer for grantmakers on supporting grantee capacity. It defines nonprofit effectiveness, capacity and capacity building, and covers trust between funders and grantees, links to funder strategy, grantee and funder readiness, and 5 types of support from unrestricted grants to collective capacity building. It sets out 3 principles: contextual, continuous and collective. Each section ends with questions for grantmakers, and a final section covers measuring impact.

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