Marketing Über Alles
Too many nonprofits develop products and services without paying enough attention to their customers (the beneficiaries).
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Urban Crisis as Opportunity
Detroit has become a source of inspiration and solutions for other challenged American cities and even other municipalities looking for innovative new models of urban governance.
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Philanthropy as a Catalyst
Foundations aspiring to make a difference in challenged cities have much to offer beyond grantmaking—if they are willing to embrace new roles that may fall well outside their comfort zones.
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Roundtable: Cross-Sector Leadership in Detroit
A roundtable discussion on the role that leadership from across sectors played in revitalizing Detroit.
Why Social Impact Educators Should Disrupt Their Own Systems
Changing who and how universities teach social innovation offers unprecedented learning opportunities for students—and the potential to create greater social impact.
Notes From the Frontier
Supplements to the article “Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier.”
Three Things Every Growing Nonprofit Needs to Scale
An organization’s early-stage success has less to do with having a charismatic, lone visionary at the helm, and more to do with teamwork, metrics, and access to capital.
Impact Investing and the Pursuit of Social Equity
There’s great potential for impact investing to decrease income equality in the United States, but for that to happen, investors need to pay more attention to how they structure their investments.
Business Collaboration with Government: Does Reward Outweigh Risk?
The challenges facing the world—issues that affect businesses, government, and civil society in equal part—are too real and too urgent for any sector to go it alone.
Anatomy of a Viral Web Video Campaign
With the right creative approach and the help of supporter networks, nonprofits can leverage web video to engage thousands, even millions, of people on a shoestring budget.