Nonprofit Management

Grantees as Customers

By Dave Peery 6

Four ways funders can serve and empower grantees.

Disrupting Corporate Philanthropy

By Marc Benioff 1

Three best moves and three biggest lessons—Marc Benioff reflects on more than a decade of work at the Salesforce.com Foundation.

A New Look

By Eric Nee 2

Stanford Social Innovation Review has a new look that is bolder, more energetic, and more contemporary, reflecting today's social change movement.

Don’t Just Aggregate Funds, Unleash Them!

By Alison Powell & Soumya Korde 6

Raising money is just part of the social change equation—an interview with Helen LaKelly Hunt and Emily Nielsen Jones of Women Moving Millions.

Filling the Gap in Media Funding

By Eric Newton 1

Foundations are increasing their media-related grantmaking—but they need to do more.

On Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Measuring Impact

By Emmett D. Carson

Don’t let evaluation distort your mission.

Getting Results Data Off the Dusty Shelf

By Angela Kail

Charities and funders need support and guidance to make sure that information collected does not go to waste.

Foundations

Using Metrics to Encourage Innovation

By Jenny Shilling Stein 3

By introducing a learning agenda, funders can encourage innovation, drive philanthropic dollars to the best programs, and become better partners to grantees.

Impact, Not Overhead, Is What Counts

By Christina Triantaphyllis & Matthew Forti 1

A look at barriers global NGOs face in reporting the right measures of effectiveness—and how funders and grantees can begin to overcome them.

Struggling to Innovate: Together We Stand

By Joanna Wylegala

Takeaways from a discussion on the promises and perils of innovation in the social sector.