Putting Community First in Social Innovation Education
Social innovation educators are responsible for teaching students how to become collaborative community partners. Here's how.
Collaboration Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy
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Evaluating Community Change
A collective impact effort in Greater Cincinnati offers a useful framework for evaluating community change.
Funding Without Prescription
In bringing the nutrition cohort a carefully calculated strategy, patient capital, and a willingness to let go, Newman’s Own Foundation is demonstrating success at the heart of the collaboration challenge.
Business Collaboration with Government: Does Reward Outweigh Risk?
The challenges facing the world—issues that affect businesses, government, and civil society in equal part—are too real and too urgent for any sector to go it alone.
When Straight-Line Planning Doesn’t Work
How network theory challenges conventional planning strategies and points toward a more flexible, collaborative approach to fundraising.
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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.