Philanthropy advisor Jake Hayman suggests there are lessons philanthropists can learn from Brexit:

"The question philanthropists and foundations should be asking themselves is not 'how many thank you letters do I get each year' but 'if I gave my stakeholders the power to define how I was ran this work, would they say “keep doing what you’re doing” or would they vote for fundamental change?'"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jakehayman/2016/06/26/brexit

A recent Boston Consulting Group report revealed that women hold 30% of the private wealth in the world and that 44% are self-made: 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2016/06/16/women-hold-nearly-one-third-of-global-private-wealth

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What does the future of searching look like? And what will it mean to those of us that research professionally? Join Helen Brown in a discussion about the future of search.

https://www.helenbrowngroup.com/the-future-of-search/

Do you know the difference between a screening and analytics? Do the leaders at your organization? If not, this blog post from iWave may clear up a few things:

https://www.iwave.com/2016/06/23/screening-vs-analytics/

Learn about the donor-centric way WBUR cut its annual spring pledge drive down to a single day—and kept momentum going weeks later:

http://www.evertrue.com/blog/2016/06/09/a-giving-day-built-around-donors-how-wbur-raised-1-million-in-their-first-ever-one-day-campaign

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For those that utilize SQL, here's a, well, nifty code from the CoolData blog that can help map trends in donor giving:

https://cooldata.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/nifty-sql-regression-to-calculate-donors-giving-trends/

Check out this list of 10 helpful tools to access through your browser, curated by the Helen Brown Group:

https://www.helenbrowngroup.com/best-apps-extensions-add-ons-browser/

A report by consulting firm Bridgespan highlights the damaging expectations we ask nonprofits to live by when we insist on telling them how to best spend their money:

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3060455/future-of-philanthropy/demanding-that-nonprofits-not-pay-for-overhead-is-preventing-them-fro