Editor’s Note: In June 2016, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society hosted its third Junior Scholars Forum. The following article covers a not-yet-published research paper presented there. To learn more about the research, readers can contact the paper's author, Julia Morley ([email protected]). Over the past decade and a half, business-oriented language has become commonplace in the social sector. Terms that once belonged only in corporate boardrooms—“impact,”…

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