Taking a Charter Flight
In one prominent effort to reinvent public schools, promise and performance don't necessarily match up.
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Using Evaluation as a Strategic Intervention
A new Packard Foundation report illustrates how funders can use evaluation as a powerful strategic intervention for large-scale policy and systems change.
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Overfished Ocean Strategy
Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World is a book about business innovation and the specific principles that allow companies to navigate empty economic oceans with grace.
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Real World Collaboration in Times of Polarization
The newly passed Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act illustrates how organizations can find space to debate and successfully create cross-sector and bipartisan solutions.
Animal Protection: A Growing and Global Priority
Protecting animals is integral to solving many international problems; we must use the increasing momentum behind animal welfare to drive long-term change.
Building a Strong “Value Narrative”
Support for your organization, including revenue, doesn’t come from simply pushing things out or increasing brand visibility—here are three steps to reaching a new level of impact.
Scrutinizing ONE’s “Secret Sauce” for Global Social Change
How a global NGO has fought extreme poverty using a formula that mixes pragmatic incrementalism and practical idealism with pop culture.
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Philanthropy in a Time of Polarization
The polarization of US politics is imposing new limits on how foundations can influence the policy process.