Measuring the Indirect Impacts of Market Innovators
Why measuring indirect impact matters and how on earth we can do it.
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The Color Bind: Talking (and Not Talking) About Race at Work
The Color Bind explores how color blindness and "color cognizance" can influence professional interactions.
Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is creating new business models, forcing traditional for-profit businesses to adapt or fall behind. The same will hold true for the social sector.
Innovation to Impact: Obama’s Social Innovation Fund at Four
Progress, pitfalls, and what lies ahead.
Rethinking the E Word
Broadening the definition of evidence can lead to more confident and informed philanthropic decisions.
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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.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.