Between the Quick Exit and the Long Sojourn
Social entrepreneurs have to get out there and do the work, with enough staying power to make a real impact. Part one of a two-part series.
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Pay for Success: What It Will Take to Work
Let’s critically assess the model and imagine greater possibilities by keeping it simple.
Impact Economy Lesson from Rural China
Building an impact economy at scale can help ensure that success and opportunity become the norm for children not the exception.
Unlocking the Mystery of Volunteer Retention
How Girl Scouts of Northern California is using advanced predictive analytics to inform its volunteer management practices.
Aligning Interests in Impact Investing
If we want to develop a new industry, alignment of interests is critical for long-term success.
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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.