Stop Funding Duplicative Projects
Field scans are crucial for providing data about what has been funded and where funding gaps lie.
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Untangling the Confusion Over Organizational Ethics
A wave of ethics transgressions underlines the importance of comprehensive ethics oversight for organizational success.
Judging Success in Translational Medical Research
Getting promising drug discoveries out of university labs and into the drug pipeline is more difficult than it should be.
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The “Just Right” Future
In the world that's now emerging, pre-modern practices that emphasize personal relationships are returning to prominence.
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Philanthropy and Inequality
The disruptive force of the "new philanthropy" holds the promise of helping to reduce inequality. But will it actually do so?
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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.