Steps to Successful Performance Management
Practical advice to help organizations implement results-focused performance management—part two of a two-part series.
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Getting Out from Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Why organizations need to build capacities to manage performance, and how they can develop a “theory of change” to do so—part one of a two-part series.
Measuring Impact: Keep It Clear and Simple
How clearly defining measures, and keeping them simple and meaningful, has helped World Vision increase access to clean water.
Designing a “Cooler” Nonprofit Website
Three design principles for nonprofits looking to revamp their websites.
MOOC-sourcing for Social Good
Engaging communities of learners in massively open online courses to use their knowledge—and numbers—for good.
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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.