Aspiration: A Tool for Transformational Change
Setting aspirational goals can inspire more people to get involved in your cause—and meaningful milestones can keep them engaged.
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Smart Gifts Keep On Giving
A philanthropic investment in Guatemala has established an ongoing stream of revenue to reach at-risk kids.
Five Essentials of Strategic Planning
A culture of strategic planning can provide a framework for aligning priorities, making decisions, allocating resources, and measuring impact.
Keeping Pro Bono Projects on Track
A Q&A with Taproot Foundation’s Eileen Yang on how professionals and corporations can maximize pro bono impact.
Overhead Costs: The Obsession Must Stop
We can’t separate nonprofit programs from the people who develop and deliver them.
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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.