The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey
Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.
Nonprofits & NGOs - Most Popular
Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively (more)
Measuring Narrative Change: Moving From Theory to Practice
Funders may be reluctant to support narrative work because progress is difficult to evaluate. Are these objections valid?
Approaching Gender Equity Through Indigenous Knowledge and Customs
A trial program that worked with couples in rural Zimbabwe shows the potential of a locality-based approach.
How Men’s Mental Health Resources Can Help Serve All Communities
One of the toughest challenges for social impact leaders can be reaching people who have been historically stigmatized or excluded by social and cultural norms.
Why Settle for Cookie-Cutter People and Culture Practices?
Six ideas that could help organizations improve hiring, performance, equity, and more.
Health
Beyond ‘Toughing It Out’: Mental Health in the Social Change Workplace
Integrating mental health in social change workplaces allows us to cultivate new narratives and norms that will better sustain long-term engagement with social change.
Peer Nominations for a More Diverse Funding Pipeline
Instead of exacerbating biases with the standard playbook, peer nominations help funders build a more efficient, equitable, and impactful pipeline.
Building Nonprofit Capacity, Hand in Hand
How strategic capacity building and trust-based philanthropy can work in concert.
Environment
Response: Embracing Regulation and Fighting ‘Corporate Capture’
Funders must examine how to realistically drive measurable progress on sustainability in the fashion industry.