Are You Sure You Should Be Launching Another Partnership?

By Darin Kingston, Andrew Stern, & Joanne Ke 1

For funders and founders thinking about launching a multi-stakeholder initiative for social impact, the question of "whether" is just as important as "how."

Data as a Means, Not an End: A Brief Case Study

By Tracie Neuhaus & Jarasa Kanok 2

How the education nonprofit City Year tackled “measurement drift” by reorienting its measurement activities around one simple premise: Data should support better decision-making.

Funding Revolutions in Pay-for-Success

By Lars Boggild & Mark Hlady

A public revolving fund could enable the benefits of pay-for-success while overcoming traditional concerns of privatization and scaling.

Transforming Activism: Digital Era Advocacy Organizations

By Nina Hall & Phil Ireland 1

New types of civil society organizations are powerfully and successfully using technology to campaign online and offline for social, economic, and environmental change.

Cracking the Code of Impact Investing

By Cathy Clark & Ben Thornley 7

The creation of “impact classes” as a classification system has the potential to address a number of stubborn barriers in impact investing.

Podcast

What Foundations Can Do to Address Inequality

Featuring Darren Walker, Craig Newmark, & Rob Reich

Stanford's Rob Reich moderates a panel with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and Craig Newmark of Craigslist.

Millennials and Hybrid Legal Structures Are Here to Stay

By Chris Miller 7

While the connection between Millennials and hybrid legal structures isn’t obvious, these two forces of social innovation share common history, values, and futures.

Why Rewarding Leaders Might Hurt Collaboration

By Hilary Pennington 2

It’s time for the nonprofit sector to create new models for recognizing individual leaders without compromising the collective efforts, movements, and environment of inclusion that they are trying to build.

Video

Using Data Visualization to Change the Conversation

Data experts consider the compelling ways in which organizations can use data visualization to assess impact, fundraise, and display outcomes.

Video

Building a Stronger Organization with Data: A Case Study

Experts discuss how Aspire Public Schools used data to build accountability, leadership, and capacity.