Leadership
Locally Driven, Network-Supported Systems Change
Neither top-down nor bottom-up leadership is adequate for solving complex social challenges. We need to combine the strengths of both.
Tag: Giving Tuesday
Philanthropy & Funding
SSIR Guide to Fundraising and Philanthropy During a Chaotic 2020
As charitable organizations prepare for donor outreach at the end of a chaotic year marked by COVID-19, a volatile US election, and marches for racial justice, here are 12 articles to help them make the most of their efforts.
Philanthropy & Funding
Inclusive Philanthropy
Limiting what counts as philanthropy has curtailed our understanding of its scope and social value. A more expansive approach shows how it is essential for creating a more equitable and democratic society.
Open-access to this article made possible by Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Podcast
Nonprofits & NGOs
A Hippocratic Oath for Our Digital Lives
The social sector has an opportunity to create digital spaces that give people a meaningful role in shaping a collective future.
Video
Civic Engagement
#GivingTuesday and Changing Philanthropic Behaviors in the Digital Age
Asha Curran, chief innovation officer at the 92nd Street Y and director of its Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, discussed the evolution of the grassroots giving movement at our 2018 Data on Purpose conference.
Philanthropy & Funding
The #GivingTuesday Model
The social sector has a lot to learn from the innovation network that has emerged from the post-Thanksgiving global giving movement.
Organizational Development
Living in the World of Both/And
How leaders are integrating both the network and organizational mindset into their pursuit of social impact.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Five Lessons on Innovation and the Institution
Technology and innovation aren’t just the province of new organizations—a look at how one nonprofit has navigated nearly a century-and-a-half of change.
Practical Advice
Naming the Mindsets of Innovation
Social sector leaders can encourage innovation by fostering three productive mindsets.
Leadership
Fearless Leadership in a Social World
Most leaders of traditional organizations are missing enormous opportunities to tap into the social networks, ingenuity, and good will of their own constituents.