IMPACT INDIA
The Radical Frugality Mindset for Scaling Social Change
How successful Indian nonprofits reduce costs while extending impact, even when scarcity abounds.
Articles
Foundations
To Change the System, First Change the People
At the Bush Foundation, grantmakers use an analytical approach to identify the right people who can make a difference, and supply them with the tools, connections, and inspiration they need.
Social Enterprise
Avoiding the Neoliberal Trap in Social Entrepreneurship
Seven lessons for walking the tight rope between social welfare and business.
Social Issues
Embracing an Equity Lens in the Organization and Community
How a social service organization defined equity and made it a core of its programs for low-income families in the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati, Ohio region.
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropy’s Missing Trillions
A demographic wave could soon funnel unprecedented dollars into philanthropy, but few nonprofits are poised to take advantage of the largest wealth transfer in human history.
Leadership
How Field Catalysts Galvanize Social Change
Ending malaria. Achieving marriage equality. Dramatically reducing teen smoking. Surmounting these and other daunting social challenges can require an “invisible hand” that amplifies the efforts of many other players in the field. These behind-the-scenes catalysts are built to win campaigns, not to last forever, and they are galvanizing population-level change.
Impact Investing
Searching for Impact
How search funds, a little-known private equity investment vehicle, can become a useful tool for impact investing.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Urgency to Fund Early-stage Social Entrepreneurs
Why early-stage entrepreneurs are essential building blocks for profound social change—and why they need greater investment.
Technology
The Unexamined Algorithm Is Not Worth Using
Why nonprofits need to evaluate the ethics of their algorithms.
Measurement & Evaluation
Addicted to Bad News
Don’t indulge. It can drain the joy right out of the work.