Collaboration
Does Collective Impact Really Make an Impact?
Eight findings from a recent study of collective impact initiatives, including their effect on systems and population-level outcomes.
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Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Collaboration
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Collaboration
Learn Before You Leap: The Catalytic Power of a Learning Network
Why learning networks are one of the most effective ways to accelerate learning and strengthen coordination across the social sector.
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.
Organizational Development
Social Innovation From the Inside Out
Through "inscaping," people in a social purpose organization can excel at developing new ideas and practices. Includes special online extras.
Collaboration
The Magic of “Multisolving”
Six principles and practices to unlock cross-sectoral collaboration.
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.
Nonprofits
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
Foundations
Funding Feedback
Fund for Shared Insight is pooling the cash and convictions of 13 philanthropies to build the field of end-user feedback. The collaborative aims to help nonprofits and funders learn from and empower those they seek to help. Can its leaders become role models for the positive change they seek to create?
Civic Engagement
Community Engagement Matters (Now More Than Ever)
In adopting data-driven practices, leaders must design and implement programs in ways that engage community members directly in the work of social change.