The Return of Capacity Building
It’s time for a renewed conversation about building the systems, structures, and skills for social sector excellence.
Nonprofit Management - Most Popular
Innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders better manage their organization (more)
The Rise of a Fourth Sector Skills Set
Tomorrow’s leaders are already developing a new problem-solving mindset—good thing, because they need to.
Advocacy
The Importance of Letting Go
A look at how organizations that let go of their own assumptions, perspectives, and sense of control can influence change like policy reform.
Nonprofit Management
Integrating Intentional Influence into Your Strategy
Five practical considerations for organizations that want to use intentional influence to achieve a bold social goal.
Podcast
Social Innovations
Helping Donors Give Directly to Recipients
Give Directly offers a simpler, more personal route of donation - connecting donor to recipient. In this podcast, Paul discusses how technology, a commitment to efficiency, and dedication to improving the donation process on both ends, has made Give Directly a success.
Podcast
Business
Scaling Excellence Successfully
In this podcast, Professor Sutton overviews his findings in studying methods for successfully scaling excellence and explains the importance of taking a logical and thought out approach to scaling.
Redesigning Higher Education Through Intentional Influence
To create system-level change, we must use influence to both work within the system and disrupt it.
IN-DEPTH SERIES
The Value of Intentional Influence
The Value of Intentional Influence is a blog series exploring why and how organizations should use the power of influence to solve social problems at the magnitude they exist.
Nonprofit Management
Strategy’s Missing Link
Influence is an underutilized tool for organizations that want to achieve bold social goals.
Podcast
Global Issues
Stoves of Empowerment: How a Household Item Is Saving Lives
Kreger describes how Potential Energy, winner of Tech Awards 2013 in the Economic Empowerment category, innovatively tackles social issues as a nonprofit venture.