Using Data to Create Social Change
Nancy Lublin describes how working with data has helped DoSomething.org learn and grow.
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Nonprofits & NGOs - Most Popular
Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively (more)
How Research Universities Can Help the Refugee Crisis
Academic-humanitarian collaborations that mobilize rigorous scientific research can improve the effectiveness of aid efforts.
Going into Business for Wildlife Conservation
To achieve large-scale, long-term success, wildlife conservationists need to think like the private sector and invest in business innovation.
Dismantling “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
How the Palm Center used long-term, strategic communications to break down a widely held belief and overturn a discriminatory Pentagon policy.
No Exit: The Case for Nonprofit Holding Companies
Applying the structure of a holding company to the nonprofit and social enterprise sectors could help both small, high-potential organizations and larger anchor organizations flourish.
Time for Global Action on Mental Health
For years, the international aid community has stigmatized, mistreated, or simply ignored the millions of people who suffer from mental illness. We need a new approach.
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Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
In Democratic by Design, Gabriel Metcalf looks at how small-scale, self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business can scale up to effect widespread social change.
Tapping the Great Potential of Female Philanthropists
Ten ways to better engage high-net-worth women donors, and work with them to effectively invest in women and girls, and other social causes.
Improv Tools for Organizational Impact
The structures and philosophy of the art of improv can help nonprofits stay grounded in what they are, while simultaneously allowing them to creatively respond to the ever-evolving needs of the people they strive to serve.
The Case for Communications
How smart, strategic communications can help nonprofits and foundations win.