Can We Measure Media Impact? Surveying the Field
Two scholars analyze an array of current approaches to gauging whether and how news organizations make a difference in the world.
Features - Articles
New and in-depth explorations of solutions to social, environmental, or organizational problems (more)
Can We Measure Media Impact? Reading Between The Lines
Leaders at one nonprofit media outlet are advancing a conversation about how best to develop meaningful metrics for journalistic work. Includes magazine extras.
Time for the Plural Sector
To create a healthy society the plural sector needs to take its rightful place alongside the private and public sectors.
The Promise of Lean Experimentation
By adopting a model from business, nonprofit organizations can launch, test, and implement new programs and services more efficiently. Includes magazine extras.
The Time Bank Solution
For decades, time banking has been a relatively small-scale movement. But signs are emerging that it may be an idea whose time has come.
The Wall Street Takeover of Nonprofit Boards
Financiers represent a growing percentage of board members at some of America’s most prestigious nonprofits, resulting in poorer governance.
Grassroots Power
Supplement to the article “Empowering Women at the Grassroots.”
Empowering Women at the Grassroots
In many parts of the world, corporations today are cultivating partnerships with locally rooted organizations that promote a multi-faceted approach to women’s empowerment. Includes magazine extras.
Disruption for Good
Rapid advances in technology are changing philanthropy in fundamental ways—making it potentially more rational, effective, collaborative, transparent, and democratic.
Co-Creation in Government
Bringing innovation to the public sector is famously difficult. But efforts that open up the public sector value chain to multiple stakeholders can deliver impressive results.