Nonprofit Management
Is Excel Making Your Nonprofit Mediocre?
Nonprofits need to use more-sophisticated client- and program-tracking platforms to meet the expectations of today’s funders.
Curtis Chang
Curtis Chang is the founder and CEO of Consulting Within Reach (CWR), a team of experts from both corporate and nonprofit backgrounds that uses professional skills to serve social entrepreneurs. Curtis’s own diverse vocational path has included teaching public policy at Harvard, doing development work in Africa, and running a family foundation. Curtis has won a White House award for his work as a social innovator and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC.
Nonprofits
Moving From Verbal to Visual Cause Marketing
Why nonprofit leaders need to improve their visual fluency—plus a crash course on how to do it.
Nonprofits
Designing a “Cooler” Nonprofit Website
Three design principles for nonprofits looking to revamp their websites.
Fundraising
End-of-Year Appeals: Five Bad Habits to Kick
Five ways nonprofit leaders can make their organizations’ year-end fundraising appeals more effective.
Nonprofit Management
The Five-Minute Nonprofit MBA
Among all the differences between nonprofits and the corporate world, one contrast that is often overlooked but influential is the path to executive leadership.
Nonprofit Management
Elderly Care and the Future of Social Innovation
Until successful new models for senior care are developed, all other forms of social innovation will be constricted.
Technology & Design
Social Media: Getting Value Means Giving Value
Four tips for moving your social media out of zombie status—and making your investment in it worthwhile.
Nonprofit Management
War Games and Other Tools to Reinvent Your Nonprofit
Five tips for organizations that need to change how they operate.
Foundations
Los Angeles Shines in Collaboration for Capacity Building
What’s behind Los Angeles's quiet but notable pace of innovation.
Education
Teachers and Social Entrepreneurs
An interview with Ellen Moir, founder and executive director of New Teacher Center (NTC).
Technology & Design
Apps and Other Innovations Steve Jobs Gave to Nonprofits
Steve Jobs benefited the nonprofit sector by radically leveling the technological playing field.
Nonprofit Management
Three Nonprofit Hiring Mistakes to Avoid
For one client, four successive poor hires for one mid-level position had profound consequences on its scorecard.