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Selecting a Pool of Bold Ideas
How the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy winnowed 100&Change’s Top 200 proposals.
Solutions - Articles
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An Open-Data Approach to Transform Grantmaking
Proposals for grants can offer a wealth of ideas and information to the nonprofit community, if foundations take the right steps.
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The Vital Role of Early-Innovation Funders
At The Lemelson Foundation, we seek to foster inventions that will have social impact and improve lives. But our support for early-stage innovation could not succeed without a trusted network of grantees and partners.
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The Need to Double Down
Big bets can make a big difference, but only if they catalyze interest and follow-up investment in the problems they seek to address.
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Making Better Big Bets
Philanthropy is poised for a grand transformation, but it will require a lot of investment, capacity building, and experimentation to get it right.
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Doing Competitions the Right Way
The legal and logistical challenges to hosting a competition are surmountable, but they require proper planning and due diligence.
Video
Tools and Lessons to Make Listening to Clients Feasible
Gathering feedback from clients can be the swiftest path to insight and service improvement for nonprofits. Listen for Good offers a low-cost, high-quality method. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
The Secret to Better Storytelling for Social Change: Better Partnerships
No single organization or individual can pull off an effective storytelling campaign alone. Reaping the benefits of storytelling requires that we build better partnerships between three important players.
Use Customer Surveys to Measure and Improve Nonprofit Programs
A simple measurement solution exists beyond evaluation and monitoring: asking nonprofit clients to take surveys about their customer experience. Lean Data and Listen for Good show how. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
Podcast
Rewriting Our Cultural Narrative for a More Just Society
Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, speaks about the nature of political and cultural power and the importance of continually assessing the nonprofit sector's efforts to bring about change.