Is Your Nonprofit Built for Sustained Innovation?
Six useful starting points for nonprofits that want to build their capacity to continuously innovate.
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Innovative approaches to internally driven, organization-wide efforts to achieve strategic goals (more)
Design Thinking as a Turnaround Tool
Changing an organization’s vision and culture takes a long time and tremendous commitment, but design thinking can help lead the way.
The Art of Unleashing Talent
Three landmark blunders in recruiting and retaining social enterprise talent—and how to avoid them.
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Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change
To achieve systems change, we must pay attention not just to formal procedures, but also to culture.
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Rethinking Innovation and Scale
SSIR academic editor Johanna Mair talks with Roy Steiner of Omidyar Network, Renee Kaplan of the Skoll Foundation, Jim Bildner of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and Christian Seelos, coauthor with Mair of the new book Innovation and Scaling for Impact.
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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
How companies in industries such as pharmaceuticals are starting to learn that by giving more data away, they actually get more back.
Using Collaboration to Harness Big Data for Social Good
Not every nonprofit has a data science team. To truly harness big data for social good, we need collaborations between individuals, across organizations, and across sectors.
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Unleashing Social Sector Creativity with Design
Making effective use of the creative power of design requires engaging entire organizations—from leadership to the front lines.
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Taking the Governance Leap
SSIR managing editor Eric Nee moderates a panel organized by the Indian strategic philanthropy foundation Dasra on supporting good governance in India.
Winning the Internet
How nonprofits can use the same tactics that helped Trump win the US presidency for outsized social impact.