Persistent Poverty in a Smug Meritocracy
A response to Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk on nonprofit executives’ pay.
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Employee Engagement Gets Dirty
On-the-job impact opportunities lead to happier, more productive employees.
Building Venture Capital from Within
Five lessons on creating a venture capital fund inside a foundation—a look at the Knight Enterprise Fund.
Steps to Successful Performance Management
Practical advice to help organizations implement results-focused performance management—part two of a two-part series.
Getting Out from Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Why organizations need to build capacities to manage performance, and how they can develop a “theory of change” to do so—part one of a two-part series.
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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.