The Top-Down, Bottom-Up Development Challenge

By Ken Banks 5

Do international development projects designed and managed at the grassroots level perform better than those managed from the outside?

Does Your Backbone Organization Have Backbone?

By Spencer Critchley 10

How collective impact efforts—done right—can break through a systemic barrier to nonprofit collaboration.

Community Voices for Social Good

By Perla Ni 5

We need a more systemic and accessible way for underserved individuals to share their beliefs, insights, and experiences directly with policymakers, nonprofits, and their own communities.

To Boost Individual Donor Giving, Nonprofits Need a Plan

By Heather Yandow 15

A new report shows that creating a fundraising plan is paramount for organizations looking to increase individual donor gifts.

Generations Together

By John Laurenson

Home-sharing programs in France provide students with a place to live and seniors with a source of companionship.

Donations Within Limits

By Sarah Sandford, Anne-Claire Pache, & Arthur Gautier

MSF France has found an answer to the question of whether to accept corporate support—and it’s anything but simple

The Tactics of Trust

By David Sawyer & David Ehrlichman 19

Participants in a large, complex collaboration can build a capacity for finding common ground—and it doesn’t have to take years.

A Sense of Site

By Rachel Wright

The places where social change work occurs can shape—and, in some cases, complicate—how that work unfolds.

Measuring Social Return on Investment Before You Invest

By Matthew Forti & Jake Goldberg 5

Using a social return on investment framework, organizations can estimate the future impact, cost, and scale of programs before they begin, and allocate resources for greater impact.

Sharing Data in Collective Impact Efforts

By Katherine R. Cooper & Michelle Shumate

Three important lessons in overcoming the challenges of data sharing to make the whole more than the sum of its parts.