Operating When You Can’t See the Full Picture
Three principles for solving complex, systemic problems like improving community health.
Nonprofit Management Innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders better manage their organization
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Parsing Impact Investing’s Big Tent
As the momentum of impact investing builds, the lack of proper taxonomy poses a significant risk to the movement, especially given recent growth.
The Charity Trap
Why a recent exposé on Red Cross failures in Haiti highlights unrealistic expectations for social sector organizations.
Cultivating and Sustaining Generative Teams
Four practices that can help people establish common intent; sense emerging needs and solutions; and collectively prototype, create, and evolve innovative health models and relationships.
Four Learning Principles for the Social Sector
Creative solutions to common learning challenges that social innovators face.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
The Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector
More nonprofits are managing their brands to create greater impact and organizational cohesion.
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
The Dawn of System Leadership
The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.