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Structural Revolution and the Social Sector
How field-level strategies could help shift the social sector toward a relentless focus on maximizing impact.
Food Doesn’t Grow in Silicon Valleys
A focus on innovation can be an impediment to genuine progress in the food system.
Developing a Culture of Knowledge Management
The three types of data foundations need—and how they must use them.
Philanthropy
Creating a Smarter Philanthropic Marketplace
Most funders are not adequately tapping into existing data and knowledge to better inform their grantmaking.
Measuring the Indirect Impacts of Market Innovators
Why measuring indirect impact matters and how on earth we can do it.
Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is creating new business models, forcing traditional for-profit businesses to adapt or fall behind. The same will hold true for the social sector.
Human-Centered Design and the Last Mile
A collaborative approach to empowering community health workers drives innovation.
Nonprofit Lessons from a Government Tech Debacle
What can organizations learn from the Affordable Care roll out?