Shared Services Alliances: Part 1
Creating back office alliances—an interview with John Weiser, a principal with the nonprofit technical assistance organization Opportunities Exchange.
Collaboration - Most Popular
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Catalytic Philanthropy Forces Collaboration in Leadership
A look at leadership in the social sector.
Playing Baseball with Tennis Rackets: What’s Not Being Included in Our Collaborative Meetings
Nonprofits need to share information and resources.
Skoll Climate Change Panel Discusses Successes and Failures of Copenhagen
Top-down political accords versus bottom-up action—a discussion of climate change at Skoll World Forum.
Skoll World Forum 2010 Kicks Off in Oxford
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focuses on “catalyzing collaboration for social change.”
Clouds and InfoStructure
Cloud-based tools encourage greater collaboration, allowing us to re-imagine problems and develop new solutions to tackle social problems.
Podcast
Kriss Deiglmeier - New Paths to Social Innovation
The blurring of lines between nonprofits, governments, and for-profit businesses have fueled contemporary social innovation. With this convergence of market and non-market practices, we find that cross-sector collaborations provide for lasting solutions to our society's most vexing social problems. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the CSI, defines social innovation, bringing clarity to the term, and examines its current status in theory and practice.
Less What, More How: A Review of Nilofer Merchant’s The New How
A review of The New How: Creating Business Solutions through Collaborative Strategy , a book on how to create and implement high-impact strategies for social entrepreneurship.
Crowdsourcing Social Change
A look at examples of high-impact crowdsourcing and the movement for more open collaboration and transparency in the giving sector.
Nonprofit Sector Needs to Be Better Understood
The nonprofit sector plays an indispensable role in society and the economy, but it is poorly understood and underappreciated.