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Embracing Innovation
NeighborWorks America, a 40-year-old congressionally chartered nonprofit, redefined its relationship with its grantees to build a learning lab for innovation.
Collaboration Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy
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Realizing the Dream of Homeownership
NeighborWorks’ courses on homeownership and support services empowered these people to buy their own homes and transform their lives.
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The Need for Cross-Sector Collaboration
Addressing today’s most pressing challenges requires developing the capacity to lead collaboratively and to effectively work across sectors.
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The Essential Skills of Cross-Sector Leadership
Becoming an effective cross-sector leader requires a set of skills built around three broad areas: building teams, solving problems, and achieving impact.
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Cocreating a Change-Making Culture
When collaboratives get intentional about culture, they can more quickly and more effectively tackle social problems at the magnitude at which they exist.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
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.