Nonprofit Management
Five Investments You Can Skip
The nonprofit sector wastes an insane amount of time implementing best practices that have painfully low return on investment.
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Nonprofits
How Nonprofit Networks Are Raising the Bar on Results
Nine of the ten largest US nonprofits are networks, with multiple affiliates across the country striving for significant impact.
Social Entrepreneurship
Fulfilling the Promise: Social Investment
Insight into the process of forming productive relationships with social investors, and whether receiving an investment is the right growth approach for each social enterprise.
Socially Responsible Business
Achieving Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting
Integrated reporting—the combination of a company’s financial and nonfinancial performance in one document—is a crucial step to creating a more sustainable society.
Foundations
The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy
There are unconventional methods one can use to evaluate advocacy organizations and make strategic investments in that arena.
Measuring Social Impact
Impact Market Failure
It comes down to this: We’re all operating in a dysfunctional market for impact.
Nonprofits & NGOs
“L3C” Spells “Caveat Emptor”
The notion of L3Cs is that they’re a vehicle for doing well by doing good and therefore an improvement over the typical nonprofit structure.
Economic Development
Mobile Money in Haiti: A New Support for Disaster Relief and Development Programs
New mobile-based payment systems may offer a more affordable, and faster alternative to distributing cash to countries such as Haiti.
Government
Social Innovation Fund Moves Swiftly Forward Despite Funding Threat
Takeaways from an interview with SIF Director Paul Carttar after his keynote panel discussion at the 2011 Social Enterprise Conference this past weekend.
Microfinance
Sunny Days for Microfinance
I think the current moment is the beginning of the golden years for microfinance.