How to Be a Super Board Chair
Nine super tactics and one superpower board chairs can use to make the most of the board experience and prime their organizations for success.
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The Five Stages of Founder Transitions
It is well known that the start-up process is a psychological journey; the same is true of the leaving process.
Your Software, Their Hardware: Stacking the Deck for High-Quality Replication
Your awesome model doesn’t get to serious scale unless others replicate it, too. Here’s how to make it happen.
The B Corp Movement Goes Big
The campaign to reform capitalism by making companies prioritize stakeholders could never succeed without getting large multinational corporations on board. Now that Danone, Laureate Education, and Natura have signed on, the B Corp movement is demonstrating how it can be done.
Unpacking the Theory of Change
The term “theory of change” is as popular as it is confusing. By gaining a clearer understanding of its various interpretations, practitioners in the social sector can more effectively implement and assess their interventions.
A Vast New Source for Social Purpose Finance
The conversion of government-owned or -controlled assets into charitable endowments, or "philanthropication through privatization," has succeeded around the world in creating effective foundations for social good.
Social Entrepreneurship Needs a New Funding Model
Impact investors pass on enterprises with potential because the deals are too small to justify the effort. A new model works through intermediaries to get entrepreneurs the capital they need.
Four Lessons for Launching a Social Enterprise
Judging from our experience of creating employment for Pakistani women in household services, we would do many things differently if we had the chance.
Cooperation and Hierarchy
Organizational hierarchy can make or break cooperatives, depending on its effect on the collective psychological ownership of members.
Donor Recognition and Its Discontents
The reward of public recognition can motivate or inhibit donors, depending on their prior motives.