Lean Experimentation for the Social Sector: Build Smart to Learn Fast
How can a nonprofit with limited time and money maximize its chances of success? A talk from our 2015 Nonprofit Management Institute.
Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively (more)
How can a nonprofit with limited time and money maximize its chances of success? A talk from our 2015 Nonprofit Management Institute.
Innovation is an important tool to create social change, one that can be learned and mastered.
Organizations often stumble when it comes to turning innovation into impact. Here’s a guide to diagnosing and preventing several “pathologies” that underlie this failure.
Philanthropists should create collaborative relationships with grantees that cultivate critical thinking, learning, and adaptation.
A New York City nonprofit aims to re-engage kids with creative, risky outdoor activities.
Four years ago, a Northern California bookstore reinvented itself as a hybrid social enterprise—and its story continues to unfold.
In Belgium, leaders of a nonprofit are using a pay-for-success mechanism to fund a program for young migrant job seekers.
When a for-profit company partners with an NGO, it must carefully manage employees’ adjustment to a new organizational context.
The number of companies offering employee engagement and happiness surveys, feedback tools, pulse checks, and culture assessments is exploding. How are social sector organizations using them?
Foundations’ internal practices and culture ripple out to grantees in meaningful ways, and it directly accelerates or impedes grantees’ effectiveness.