Unlocking the Mystery of Volunteer Retention

By PeiYao Chen, Shawna Murphy, David Schwartz & Heather Vilhauer

How Girl Scouts of Northern California is using advanced predictive analytics to inform its volunteer management practices.

Humans: There’s No App for That

By Karti Subramanian 3

The inconvenient truth about data, technology, and social impact.

Can Charity Make Big Brother Benevolent?

By Peter Manzo 4

What would Hari Seldon think of big data?

Can a “Like” Save a Life?

By Julie Dixon 6

A Georgetown University and Waggener Edstrom study sheds new light on the debate surrounding the effectiveness of online influence.

Collaborative Disruption in the Nonprofit World

By Kyle Zimmer

Nonprofits are making funding an integral part of their mission, and working with for-profits and other nontraditional partners to deliver on that mission.

Nonprofits

A Better IRS Code

By Aaron Hurst 9

One simple change to the IRS code would ensure that nonprofits assemble diverse boards that truly represent the organizations’ owners: the community.

Role Play: Define Your Role So Social Change Can Flow

By Theresa Fay-Bustillos 3

By understanding their unique role in the social change landscape, nonprofit organizations can increase their impact.

What Nonprofits Need

By Antony Bugg-Levine & Kerry H. Sullivan 3

Three things that funders can learn from Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector Survey.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mentors

By Jennifer Przybylo & Nina Vasan 9

How to make the most of being a mentor.

At Least Take Down the Signs

By Kevin Starr 4

Old-school development and its rusting reminders.