Oil in Troubled Water
To enrich Africa, oil companies and NGOs must cooperate.
Collaboration - Articles
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
Partners for the Planet
You know the world is changing when the largest corporate buy-out in history hinges on an environmental commitment. That’s what happened in February when two top private equity firms enlisted the help of Environmental Defense, a nonprofit that finds practical solutions to environmental problems, to acquire TXU Corp., the largest utility in Texas.
A New Era for Business
More and more business leaders recognize that their company's future is increasingly intertwined with the needs and demands of society. But many executives don't understand how to manage that changing relationship. In this article, McKinsey & Company consultants provide a model for incorporating sociopolitical issues into the strategic decision-making process.
Learning From Government
What the public sector can teach the nonprofit and business sectors.
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.