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How to Finance Community-Led Solutions
Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds has pioneered community-driven outcomes contracts to center Indigenous communities in Canada as leaders in addressing health and social problems. They present a bold new model for outcomes purchasing.
The Nonprofit Sector Has an RCT Problem
Randomized controlled trials are touted as the benchmark for evaluating social programs. The social sector should focus instead on an improvement orientation to evaluating performance. | Open access to this article made possible by the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago
The Future of Innovation Is Collective
The world is undergoing simultaneous economic, technological, geopolitical, environmental, and social changes that organizations cannot address alone. Only a collective approach to social innovation can solve for challenges that are too large for individual organizations.
Reimagining Nursing Education
The predominant model for educating nurses prepares them for hospital settings. By adopting a competency-based education model rooted in community care, nursing programs can better equip their students to address the diverse health-care needs and environments of the 21st century.
How to Manage Underperforming Cross-Sector Partnerships
Many public-private collaborations that address complex social problems flounder. We offer a new model to get such partnerships back on track.
Preventing Identity-Based Violence From the Ground Up
Worsening conflicts around the world need more than state actors to resolve them. Community-based organizations are working to heal the social fragmentation at the root of mass atrocity and identity-based violence.
Growing Community Together
To succeed, place-based neighborhood transformation must have deep roots in the community that support innovative ways to branch to outside resources. Bonton Farms offers a model of such work.
Programmatic Asset Transfers as a Strategic Tool for Social Impact
Although often triggered by organizational stress, asset transfers should be seen not as a sign of organizational failure but as a valuable way to help both sides of the transfer achieve their goals. | Open access to this article made possible by The Sustained Collaboration Network
Collectively Owned Strategies
Funder-owned strategies often reinforce donor-grantee power imbalances and focus on short-term measurable gains, thereby limiting philanthropic impact. Global and systemic challenges can be addressed more effectively with strategies that are collectively owned. | Open-access to this article made possible by Dalberg Catalyst.