Breaking Free from the Tribe: Why Philanthropy Needs to Invest in Bridge Builders
An often missing but critical part of achieving social change is supporting individuals who can make connections outside of a field of advocacy or practice.
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Does Your Backbone Organization Have Backbone?
How collective impact efforts—done right—can break through a systemic barrier to nonprofit collaboration.
Ending HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Sector Responsibility
The private sector has an important role to play in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic and improving health systems as a whole.
Imagine a World of Good Data
Unless we prioritize government collection, analysis, and distribution of data, public officials will continue to make decisions with limited facts, and citizens will get poorer services from the government than from the private sector.
Corporate Philanthropy for Real-World Health Interventions
Corporate philanthropy can play a powerful role in addressing pervasive public health problems—a look at three effective practices from the Merck Childhood Asthma Network.
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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.