The Evolving Promise of Pay for Success
Despite growing pains, the pay for success funding model is finding renewed success in communities across the United States and is primed to evolve into an ever-more-powerful tool for social change.
Nonprofits & NGOs - Most Popular
Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively (more)
Organizational Development
Communicating Complexity in the Humanitarian Sector
By relying on academic research, organizations can understand where their communications will have the most impact. The final article in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
Organizational Development
Creating a Culture of Innovation in the Humanitarian Sector
How organizations can create a culture that supports innovation, regardless of their size or complexity. The fourth of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
Organizational Development
Five Ethical Principles for Humanitarian Innovation
A pragmatic, “good enough” approach to experimentation in humanitarian contexts. The third of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
Collaboration
How 11 Humanitarian Organizations Collaborated to Strengthen Indian Americans’ Giving and Impact
Two years after nearly a dozen India-focused organizations in the United States began discussing how they could combine forces, they have launched the India Philanthropy Alliance and revealed insights into making complex collaborations work.
Organizational Development
Using Diversity and Inclusion as a Source for Humanitarian Innovation
By bringing diversity and inclusion to the forefront, even the most traditional organizations can enhance the design and implementation of social solutions. The second of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
IN-DEPTH SERIES
Humanitarian Innovation in Action
This series, presented in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Innovation Service, explores what innovation looks like as a tool for change and growth within complex institutions.
Organizational Development
The Art of Values-Based Innovation for Humanitarian Action
To truly benefit from innovation, humanitarian organizations need to regard it as a set of values that runs through all of their practices. The first of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a new series exploring innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
Excerpt
An Office Space of One’s Own
An excerpt from Shared Space and the New Nonprofit Workplace, which looks at the challenge of finding affordable and stable office space for nonprofits.
Filling the Gaps in Collective Impact
Nine supporting activities that can help make collective impact approaches to social change more nuanced and rigorous.