Indexing Nonprofits
Donors want their money to be spent wisely, but knowing where to give can be difficult.
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Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and NGOs be more effective (more)
Diversifying NGO Leadership
There was a time when the all the senior staff of international NGOs working in developing countries came from North America and Europe. That is changing.
Collective Impact or Coordinated Blindness?
Competition across the sector with corresponding mechanisms to help organizations learn from these practices might better drive social innovation.
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Network Mindsets in Nonprofit Management
Social media guru Beth Kanter discusses how nonprofits can utilize their professional networks to develop a “network mindset.”
Liberating 990 Data
Sharing nonprofits’ Form 990 tax data in a comprehensive and easy-to-access manner may open the door to more collaboration and innovation within the sector.
#SMoP-ping Up Nonprofit Social Media Angst
Frameworks and tools for building strategy—a report from the Social Media on Purpose conference.
Measuring Impact Through Field Experiments
It is important to remember that while all this studying is great, innovators should place a higher priority on helping people when some program or product is effective.
How to Ask the Right Questions
Who is the target population for a microcredit intervention? Your answer will depend largely on where you sit: Academics and microfinance institutions will be interested in different groups of people.
Measuring Impact Over Time
It is perhaps no coincidence that the development community’s biggest successes—eradication initiatives like polio and smallpox—are precisely the ones that made monitoring central to their work.