Reconsidering Evidence: What It Means and How We Use It
The tide that has swept experimental program evaluation to the forefront of knowledge building about social policy is suddenly ebbing.
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How Individual Donors Can Help Build Movements
It’s difficult to know how—and where—to engage in risky work that may not yield results for a long time. Three lessons can help.
Four Strategies for Staying on the Path to Scale
Strategy, capital, and people are essential to scaling an organization’s work and impact, but they’re not sufficient—to transform those crucial resources into the desired results, nonprofit leaders need to redesign their organizations too.
Measuring What Matters
Five grant performance measurement traps and how to avoid them.
Optimizing International Corporate Volunteer Programs
Four steps to making a positive difference in the field—and developing valuable leadership skills along the way.
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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.
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.