The Social Innovation Fund: Field Observations
We must use our scarce resources to serve disenfranchised people’s needs and demand that evidence of results play a greater role in funding decisions.
Nonprofits - Most Popular
Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and NGOs be more effective (more)
Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting
Don't be fooled into thinking strategies for online engagement can be cut and pasted from one platform to the next.
Measuring Leadership Development
To avoid measuring and funding leadership development is to deprive the social sector of one of its greatest performance improvement tools.
Organization: The Next Big Innovation
The biggest social wins will come from a shift in mind-set that refocuses efforts on improving organizational effectiveness.
Open Source for Humanitarian Action
Ushahidi develops free software that allows volunteers to map humanitarian crises from their mobile phones.
Sesame Workshop: Empowering Children Through Media
What benefits children today may not affect the children of tomorrow.
Five Ways to Navigate the Fiscal Crisis
How human services nonprofits can stay afloat and advance their missions during a time of government cutbacks.
Change Comes at a Cost
In 2008, a group of Chicago’s social service agencies formed the Back Office Cooperative, which has produced impressive financial savings. Yet greater efficiency has had a cultural cost.