Foundations
What Is a Leadership Funder?
Foundations have supported leadership development for decades, but a shift in mindset and approach—if sustained and expanded—could lead to even greater impact.
Tag: Capacity-building
Design Thinking
When Will Design Get Serious About Impact?
To achieve sustained impact, designers should strive to shift the fundamental dynamics of development.
Nonprofit Management
Planned Performance
Here's how the International Planned Parenthood Federation is working to build a new global performance culture. Includes magazine extras.
Collaboration
Feeding Relationships
Social capital has enabled Second Harvest Japan to overcome cultural resistance to its operating model. Includes magazine extras.
Nonprofit Management
The Return of Capacity Building
It’s time for a renewed conversation about building the systems, structures, and skills for social sector excellence.
Civil Society
Navigating Disruptions
International civil society organizations need to change their business models.
Nonprofits
Building a Storytelling Culture
Why a shift in mindset and an investment in capacity are essential in sustaining storytelling efforts.
Foundations
Leverage: Just Another Fancy Word?
If foundations are serious about leveraging resources for the greatest good, they need to hone every dimension of their own management.
Civil Society
Taking Charge of Scaling Well
Tensions at the heart of the scaling process demonstrate the critical part that practitioners’ goals, values, and motivations play in any scaling story.
Measuring Social Impact
Are You David, Not Goliath?
Small- and medium-size organizations can assess impact too.