Nonprofits & NGOs
Sharing Sugar
In order to foster true collaboration in the social sector, there must be a real exchange of resources between organizations.
Tag: Capacity Building
Philanthropy & Funding
Implementation Beyond Headline Victories
Championing initiatives is not enough. Philanthropy must fund their implementation and build power in communities to keep the ball moving.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Exit Strategies
It might be a cliché, but it’s rare for international NGOs to “work themselves out of a job.” Doing so requires planning from the start, communicating clearly, setting hard deadlines, and going unconditionally.
Philanthropy & Funding
How to Overhaul Grantmaking in India
Building better relationships between funders and nonprofits, and investing in capacity, will mean more resilient organizations and more impact.
Leadership
We Need to Reimagine the Modern Think Tank
Think tanks can only help pave the path toward a more inclusive, just, and equal country if we modernize our concept of expertise, re-think who gets to drive policy change, and re-imagine how policy is developed.
Philanthropy & Funding
Building a Trust-Based Philanthropy to Shift Power Back to Communities
To realize the deep systemic change that America is demanding, philanthropy must reorganize to build and demonstrate a trust-based culture, invest in community leadership capacity-building, and open up decision-making and information-sharing structures.
Collaboration
Transformational Capacity Building
Nonprofits that serve communities of color struggle to survive because of systemic racial disparities and biases. To surmount these challenges, we recommend seven approaches that have emerged from our work with these communities.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Beware the Perfectly Average Nonprofit
Typical capacity building focuses on fixing nonprofits' weaknesses. It instead should start with the premise that every organization has core strengths on which it can build.
Measurement & Evaluation
The Road Ahead for Client Feedback
Social sector leaders say they are dedicating more resources to gathering client and community feedback, but implementation barriers remain. The authors suggest three solutions to overcome them. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2018
Highlights from the magazine and website.