Foundations helping nonprofits build their capacity to execute sustained collaborations are catalyzing an important shift on the nonprofit landscape and having an outsized impact on the ground.
An excerpt from Leading Systems Change explores how to create and sustain community engagement over time.
Philanthropy is poised for a grand transformation, but it will require a lot of investment, capacity building, and experimentation to get it right.
Notes on building capacity during a time of disruption.
There is enormous potential for the social sector to help new donors become more self-aware, intentional, and strategic in their giving.
The James Irvine Foundation’s New Leadership Network provides lessons about how to foster civic innovation.
Although his advice could at times be more concrete, Kahane offers an effective critique of current approaches to collaboration and shows the need for a different way of working together.
Why are Silicon Valley’s new philanthropists and community-based organizations struggling to connect?
How leaders are integrating both the network and organizational mindset into their pursuit of social impact.
Lessons from a new initiative aimed at supporting and developing new social justice leaders.
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
A look at how KaBOOM! has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize to build their own playgrounds.
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
