What Obama’s Campaign Can Teach Nonprofits About Measurement

By Matthew Forti & Colin Murphy 4

Five measurement practices that Obama’s campaign and high-performing nonprofits have in common.

Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity

By John Kania & Mark Kramer 6

Collective impact is upending conventional wisdom on how we achieve social progress.

The Emergence of Philanthropy in China

By Jenna Nicholas 3

A report from the first-ever China Philanthropy Forum.

Surviving the Fiscal Cliff

By David Fetterman 10

The one thing every nonprofit should do in the face of federal tax increases and spending cuts.

The Truth About Disruptive Development

By Ken Banks 20

The West shouldn’t create solutions to problems we don’t understand using fashionable mobile technologies.

Advancing on Collective Impact Thought in Newark

By John Brothers & Laurel Dumont 2

Community-led dialogue is critical to sustainable collaborative approaches.

Collaborative Design Tackles Homelessness

By Jody Turner 1

A group designing innovative support systems in Portland, Ore., is identifying better ways of living for the homeless and for communities at large.

Certainty Versus Confidence

By Thaler Pekar 14

Leaders of social change can benefit from making the distinction.

The Strategic Plan is Dead. Long Live Strategy.

By Dana O’Donovan & Noah Rimland Flower 62

In today’s fast-changing world, why freeze your strategic thinking in a five-year plan?

Environmentalism Refreshed: P2

By Joe Zammit-Lucia 1

How can our environmental consciousness be productively enhanced in the new, urban, fast moving, techno-driven, unstructured, freewheeling, post-modern world of the 21st century?