Social Innovations
Review: How to Change the World
Key social innovators have succeeded against all odds –– and with little financial muscle.
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Bettering Beantown
Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.
Review: The First 90 Days
Common sense advice for how to survive the launch into a new leadership role.
Podcast
Council on Foundations Annual Conference - Philanthropy and Nonprofit Acountability Practices
In the field of philanthropy, are foundations' grantmaking and reporting processes aligned with nonprofits' strategies? In this panel discussion exploring data from a Center for Social Innovation study on nonprofit accountability practices and the costs of conflicting demands, experts debate ways in which evaluation requirements may help or hinder mission delivery.
Review: Living, Leading, and the American Dream
Collection of essays by nonprofit leader John Gardner.
Podcast
Tom Tierney - Nonprofit Management and the Leadership Deficit
One of the biggest challenges in nonprofit management is hiring and retaining talented executive leaders. In this conversation with Stanford Social Innovation Review managing editor Eric Nee, Thomas Tierney shares findings from the Bridgespan Group's study on the "leadership deficit." Tierney talks about how this crisis is affecting nonprofits, and what organizations can do to address the problem.