Collaboration
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Collaboration
Why Collaborations Fail
What lies under the word, “uncollaborative”? Usually, it’s an unaddressed power imbalance.
Cities
Strong Social Networks are Key to Turning Around Communities
What is the difference between communities that are able to recover from disinvestment and those that cannot? The answer, according to recent research from MDRC, are the presence of strong social networks.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Using Story to Change Systems
We need to develop new processes of collective storytelling across sectors to navigate turbulent times and foster systems change.
Leadership
The Dawn of System Leadership
To solve society's most pressing problems requires a system leader who can catalyze collective leadership. Includes magazine extras.
Energy
Delivering Sustainable Urban Logistics
Cities are on the front line of congestion and climate change. Here are a few ways that UPS is partnering with stakeholders to address these issues.
Collaboration
Cutting Through the Complexity: A Roadmap for Effective Collaboration
Collaborations and networks rarely achieve their ambitious goals. Here’s what it takes to make them actually work.
Social Innovations
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular rallying points for those trying to improve the world. These two notions are positive ones, but neither is adequate when it comes to understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations. The authors make the case that social innovation is a better vehicle for doing this. They also explain why most of today's innovative social solutions cut across the traditional boundaries separating nonprofits, government, and for-profit businesses.
Social Innovations
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
Collaboration
Innovation Labs: 10 Defining Features
A closer look at what characterizes an innovation lab can help practitioners, funders, and scholars better understand what labs’ potential and limits might be, as well as better assess the social impact that comes out of the them.