Innovating Public Systems
With these seven levers, social entrepreneurs can foster change in everything from affordable housing to child welfare to poverty alleviation.
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Microfinance’s Next Frontier
LeapFrog Investments aims to insure the poor on a grand scale.
Nonprofits Pipe Up
Chris Hughes, Facebook’s cofounder, has created a social media platform called Jumo designed specifically for nonprofits.
Put at Least One Egg in Another Basket
For-profit companies preach and employ diversification—and it would behoove nonprofits to have diverse revenue portfolios, as well.
Receiving Aid, Receiving Respect
How people experience government programs directly affects their levels of civic engagement.
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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.