Board Governance
Social Sector Peer Evaluation: A Proposal
Imagine a new nonprofit board governance practice where organizations engaged peers to assess their work.
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Foundations
Los Angeles Shines in Collaboration for Capacity Building
What’s behind Los Angeles's quiet but notable pace of innovation.
Nonprofit Management
Getting the Word Out
Nonprofit organizations that provide multiple services can effectively
convey what they do.
Nonprofit Management
United Way’s William Aramony and What We Missed
The nonprofit sector could have learned from Aramony’s experience.
Board Governance
A Holiday Gift for Your Board: A Refreshed Dashboard
Refresh your dashboard to better inform your board's decisions.
Governance
How Not to Handle Succession in the Arts
The most effective bosses wear their power lightly, in cooperation rather than in conflict with the artists they mean to be serving.
Nonprofit Management
Change Comes at a Cost
In 2008, a group of Chicago’s social service agencies formed the Back Office Cooperative, which has produced impressive financial savings. Yet greater efficiency has had a cultural cost.
Nonprofit Management
Five Investments You Can Skip
The nonprofit sector wastes an insane amount of time implementing best practices that have painfully low return on investment.
Nonprofit Management
Nonprofit Mergers: Are You Negotiating with the Right Party?
When deciding to merge with another nonprofit, you must take into account the other organization's management.
Urban Development
Revitalizing Struggling American Cities
Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.