A Study in Risk and Restraint
Lessons for entrepreneurs abound in the new biography on Molly Melching’s work.
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Losing Ownership of New Ideas: A Mark of Success
For social entrepreneurs, radically reframing ideas about social change can have a silver lining.
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The Art of Collaborative Leadership
Rockwood Leadership Institute president Akaya Windwood discusses how we can get movements and sectors to work together to advance the common good.
Making the Case for Intervention
The Social Impact Bond model puts evidence and outcomes measurement at the heart of contracting.
A Guide to Scaling Social Innovation
A new guide offers a framework for credible, realistic policy action that governments can take to turn social entrepreneurship into a major force for innovation.
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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.