Leverage: Just Another Fancy Word?
If foundations are serious about leveraging resources for the greatest good, they need to hone every dimension of their own management.
Sectors - Articles
Leadership for Results
The first step in developing leadership to advance large-scale social change is clearly defining the intended results.
Taking Charge of Scaling Well
Tensions at the heart of the scaling process demonstrate the critical part that practitioners’ goals, values, and motivations play in any scaling story.
Podcast
What California Can Teach Washington
At the 2013 Stanford Center for Social Innovation’s 2013 Conradin Von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture, Nichols addresses CA's cap-and-trade system and what it means for our environment.
What Does Corporate Social Responsibility Mean for the Technology Sector?
How tech can advance CSR.
Social Entrepreneurs: Say Yes
What we can learn from the exceptional life of the late Priya Haji.
Q&A with Lois Loofbourrow
The founder of education nonprofit Breakthrough Collaborative shares her scaling wisdom.
Q&A with Bob Giannino
The founder of uAspire shares lessons on successfully scaling a nonprofit.
Impact Investing: Time for New Terminology?
If we are to effectively grow the impact investing community, we need more clarity about what impact investing is—and isn’t.
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Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America offers a sweeping look at political and economic divisions in American politics over the past century.