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Dashboards That Guide Good

By Anne Marie Burgoyne

Funders can help grantees track their progress more effectively by helping them develop dashboards that measure key items.

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Which Fix?

By Justin Cohen

Some school reformers advocate starting over, while others want to keep the same students and site. Both approaches are useful.

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Sell the Wind

By Cathy L. Hartman & Edwin R. Stafford

What are social marketers to do when their target audience couldn’t care less about the change they want to make? Here's how one group got everyday people to care about alternative energy.

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The Wrong Risks

By Sheela Patel 1

By paying so much attention to managing their own risks, philanthropists are no longer attending to the marginalized people who risk so much to make change happen.

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Outrun the Recession

By Alan Tuck, Don Howard & William Foster 7

The seven healthy habits of nonprofits most likely to survive the economic downturn.

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What Workforce Crisis?

By Lester M. Salamon & Stephanie L. Geller

How do nonprofits find and keep workers even in troubled economic times?

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A Nature State of Mind

By Spencer B. Beebe & Ian Gill 3

True restoration—environmental and economic—will not come from congressional legislation, top-down stimulus money, or EPA rulings.