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Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Health Partnerships
Step aside, Stephen Covey. Kent Buse and Andrew M. Harmer have discovered seven new highly effective habits. And theirs may help rid the world of its more deadly diseases, rather than just upping people's productivity.
Review: What Matters Most
The authors offer an inside view of corporate social responsibility at work.
Review: Third Sector Development
Nonprofits are still sorely needed in the US.
Bettering Beantown
Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.
Review: Civic Revolutionaries
Cross-sector collaboration is the key to community revitalization.
Learn to Love Lobbying
Most nonprofits don’t know how to lobby and, worse, think that it entails cutting shady deals with sleazy characters. Yet lobbying is nothing more than educating legislators – a right that our democracy guarantees. To make change, nonprofits must learn to lobby. And who knows? They may even learn to love it.
The People’s IPO
Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.
15 Minutes with Victoria Hale
MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.
One Buyer at a Time
Aid organizations help build small businesses build capacity without asking whether people want the businesses’ products. As these stories show, successful programs start with real buyers.