Resetting the Grantor-Grantee Relationship
Simple changes in mindset and behavior can break the cycle of strain and mistrust in grantor-grantee relationships.
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Philanthropy Bets Big on Sustainable Development Goals
An international roster of donors has dispersed billions of dollars since 2000 to address social issues targeted by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Their efforts highlight four ways that big bets can achieve big social change.
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The Collective Impact of Suspending Suspensions
An excerpt of Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How the Challenge Inequity
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.
Breaking Through the False Choice Between Mission and Liquidity
A look at three business structures that let social enterprises scale without sacrificing purpose.
Complex Systems Change Starts with Those Who Use the Systems
Funders and others can better support the involvement of those who use social services in service design and implementation. And by doing so, they can generate more meaningful, systems-level impact.
Against Relevance
The dogma in business school education is that faculty’s research should be relevant, yet serving our students also means questioning what relevance leaves out.
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.