Are Women Donors the Key to Unlocking More Giving?
They own a growing share of wealth, but the sector isn’t yet set up to meet their needs.
Heather McLeod Grant
Building Capacity for Sustained Collaboration
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.
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Leading Systems Change
An excerpt from Leading Systems Change explores how to create and sustain community engagement over time.
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Making Better Big Bets
Philanthropy is poised for a grand transformation, but it will require a lot of investment, capacity building, and experimentation to get it right.
The Mindsets and Motives of New Donors
There is enormous potential for the social sector to help new donors become more self-aware, intentional, and strategic in their giving.
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Creating a Cross Sector Leadership Network
The James Irvine Foundation’s New Leadership Network provides lessons about how to foster civic innovation.
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Stretching Toward Solutions
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.
Bridging the Divide Between Nonprofits and Philanthropy in Silicon Valley
Why are Silicon Valley’s new philanthropists and community-based organizations struggling to connect?
Living in the World of Both/And
How leaders are integrating both the network and organizational mindset into their pursuit of social impact.
Building Networks and Movements for Social Change
Lessons from a new initiative aimed at supporting and developing new social justice leaders.
The Five Stages of Social Innovation at Scale
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Tackling Changing Markets with Enterprise Community Partners
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Fighting the Symptoms of Aging
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Making the Case for Innovation at Scale
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact
Leveraging Legacy Organizations
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Using the Internet to Scale
A look at how KaBOOM! has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize to build their own playgrounds.
Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
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.