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Natural Capital: A New Force in Strategic Planning
The concept of natural capital is catching on with strategic planners, enhancing both corporate sustainability and bottom lines.
SocialSquared: Productive Gaming on Facebook
SocialSquared games, if done well, could be tremendously powerful.
Lagging Imperialists in Social Entrepreneurship and How to Avoid Them
We need more good examples and fewer good intentions in social entrepreneurship and humanitarian design.
Net Impact vs. The Hub: Do Game Mechanics Work for Voluntarism?
Game mechanics will mature, and volunteer programs will adopt them to enhance their programs.
Matching Human Capital with Financial Capital Will Make SIF’s Millions Go Farther
Human capital can either be an unanticipated barrier to success or an effective catalyst for achieving it.
Getting Results: Outputs, Outcomes and Impact
Nonprofits that want to actually make a difference need to track their activities in some way.
Donna Hill: A Profile in Third Sector Grit
Blazing the trail for blind Americans to gain acceptance and opportunity.
A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Foundation and nonprofit leaders need to pay the same attention to increasing employment in the sector as they do to preserving the full deductibility of donations at the highest tax brackets.
Every Nonprofit Deserves the Power of Information
What the nonprofit community and those that serve it can do to support the profound culture change that managing to outcomes requires.