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Collaboration and “Diffuse Reciprocity”
A new attitude toward collaboration could help funders achieve greater long-term gains.
The Environmental Movement’s Unfunded Army
Why fostering diversity among senior leadership at environmental organizations is important to the success of the environmental movement.
Foundations
Foundation Learning: The Case for Productive Anxiety
A greater sense of urgency can help foundations better use their strategy and evaluation data to learn, unlearn, and improve.
Reflection Through Narrative
How international organizations gain insight, innovation, and internal alignment through story.
Introducing the Impact Genome Project
A new, groundbreaking initiative will codify and quantify the factors used in social impact programs that are proven to produce outcomes.
Measuring Impact Isn’t for Everyone
Collecting data to demonstrate your organization’s impact is great to do when you should, wasteful when you should not.
Experimentation: A Shortcut to Innovation
Leading organizations are placing bets on action over rhetoric.
Philanthropy
Grantmaking, Public Policy…and Tums
Exemplary grantmakers follow evidence, not presumptions, and recognize that effective strategy requires transforming enough things, not everything.
Strategic Planning and Evaluation: Tools for Realizing Results
To enable significant impact, organizations should ask three key questions and decide if formal planning and evaluation are the right approaches to finding the answers.