Organizational Development
Decentralized Workplace
Companies that adopt nonhierarchical organizational structures require deliberate efforts and collective planning to succeed.
Solutions
Organizational Development
Beyond the Broadcasting Model
Today’s communications landscape demands that social sector organizations move away from a 20th-century broadcasting approach and toward dialogue, relationship-building, and fostering community.
Collaboration
Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact
Bringing different organizations’ cultures together and building an effective inter-organizational culture can be done, but only if participants are savvy and intentional about culture.
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The Case for Ranking Donor-Advised Funds
A single public metric ranking DAF sponsors by the share of assets they deploy would turn the incentive to accumulate wealth into a race to give.
Right Ingredients, Wrong Recipe: What It Takes to Really Get Children Learning
Shifting away from rote learning requires more than the right inputs. Meaningful learning can only take place when school systems put the right political, cultural, and behavioral conditions in place.
When Evidence Isn’t Enough
If policy and spending decisions have become much more rigorous, why have outcomes still failed to improve?
Market Creation Has Been Having a Moment. Now Comes the Hard Part
Shifting impact investment toward market creation means doing a lot more than changing how we talk about what we do.
Slow Philanthropy
Amid much discussion about the future of philanthropy, one mystery deserves more attention: Why does the giving of so many ultra-wealthy people lag far behind the aspirations they express?
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.