Data as a Means, Not an End: A Brief Case Study
How the education nonprofit City Year tackled “measurement drift” by reorienting its measurement activities around one simple premise: Data should support better decision-making.
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Funding Revolutions in Pay-for-Success
A public revolving fund could enable the benefits of pay-for-success while overcoming traditional concerns of privatization and scaling.
Fortifying Health Care Startups in the Middle East and North Africa
A cohort of startups is building new, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that can help enhance health care knowledge and mitigate medical risks throughout the region.
Transforming Activism: Digital Era Advocacy Organizations
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
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
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
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
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.