Burnout From an Organizational Perspective
Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organization-level interventions.
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What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital
Development finance institutions, private foundations, and other types of investors have distinct questions about using catalytic capital. We must answer them help this branch of impact investing do more to solve pressing societal problems.
A Better Education for All During—and After—the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and its partners shows how to help children learn amid erratic access to schools during a pandemic, and how those solutions may make progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring a quality education for all by 2030.
Equity and Inclusion: The Roots of Organizational Well-Being
To build healthy, resilient organizations, nonprofits need to do more than adopt standard diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. They need to acknowledge systemic racism then commit to and implement processes to upend it.
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Cultivating Serendipity
A new book prescribes an active approach to managing uncertainty and creating positive outcomes in a fast-changing world.
A Third Space of Proximity
How a college-in-prison nonprofit continues to teach during prison quarantine.
Emerging Stronger From a Crisis
These battle-tested insights can help social enterprises increase their impact as they navigate severe crises like COVID-19.
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Leadership Transition During a Pandemic
Even in uncertain times and with leadership in flux, nonprofits can recalibrate and make progress.
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COVID-19 Is Challenging Medical and Scientific Publishing
To transform how early medical data is shared, reviewed, and published, MIT and UC Berkeley are developing a new model of academic publishing.
Spotting and Fixing Dysfunctional Nonprofit Boards
Micromanaging, rubber stamp, and Balkanized nonprofit boards of directors are more common than not, and turning them into high-functioning governing bodies requires being on the alert for six warning signs.