An Operating Model to Make Social Innovation Stick
The former chief innovation officer at USAID outlines a way for social sector organizations and funders to build innovation into their DNA.
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Land Rights Pose Opportunities, Not Just Risks, to Companies and Social Justice
By focusing on four critical aspects of land rights, businesses can not only manage risks, but also do a great deal of global good while strengthening their bottom lines.
How to Create Better Nonprofit Executive Teams
Only 19 percent of nonprofit executive team members strongly agree that their teams focus on the right work. To improve the performance of these vital groups, leaders should ask five critical questions.
Wielding Philanthropic Leadership With, Not For
Being a courageous and ethical leader in philanthropy means learning to listen, and sharing our power by encouraging, empowering, and enabling others.
Helping the Oppressed Helps Us All: Insights From the 2018 Nonprofit Management Institute
At SSIR's 2018 Nonprofit Management Institute, civil society leaders shared insight and inspiration for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion during an era when divisiveness runs through much of the public discourse.
Management Education for Sustainable Development
As technology morphs businesses, markets, and economies, we must reimagine how we educate future managers—the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals provide a North Star.
Practical Ideas for Improving Equity and Inclusion at Nonprofits
The journey toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion has no fixed endpoint, but here are a few places to start.
Giving Voice to Values
Reframing the questions we ask about values-driven leadership underlies a not-so-modest proposal to inspire and enable real change in management education and management practice.
Navigating Purpose and Collaboration in Social Impact Networks
Most models for developing networks for collaboration emphasize discovering or clarifying purpose as the first step. But purpose doesn’t always have to manifest in the form of a single vision or strategic plan shared among all participants.
How Experienced Practice Can Reform Management Education
Personal experience is central to the education and development of managers.