Turning Empathy into Action
How the nature of design thinking complements and strengthens collective impact frameworks.
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Is Excel Making Your Nonprofit Mediocre?
Nonprofits need to use more-sophisticated client- and program-tracking platforms to meet the expectations of today’s funders.
DIY PR
How one organization took advantage of a major transition to move away from third-party vendors and build an in-house communications team.
Purpose as a Collective Practice
Building purpose-driven organizations through engaging the power of the collective.
Developing Resilient Global Leaders
To create lifelong global leaders, organizations need to help young people practice resiliency, reflection, and vulnerability.
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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.