Measuring Social Impact
A Focus on Culture
How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.
Tag: Capacity-building
Nonprofit Management
Shared Space Strategies: An Interview with China Brotsky
Q&A with a visionary leader in the national shared spaces movement.
Nonprofits
“Kony 2012” and Our Capacity to Evaluate Public Charities
The general public and even the media, by and large, simply don’t have the experience, training, or tools to fully evaluate charities’ activities.
Foundations
Nonprofit Resilience Relies on Smarter Grantmaking: Part 3
A new study examines field-wide grantmaking attitudes and practices.
Foundations
Los Angeles Shines in Collaboration for Capacity Building
What’s behind Los Angeles's quiet but notable pace of innovation.
Collaboration
Expand Your Nonprofit’s Mission Through Co-Location
There are some great mission advantages to sharing space with other organizations.
Nonprofits
Social Sector Predictions for 2012
Ten predictions for the social sector and beyond in 2012.
Technology & Design
Apps and Other Innovations Steve Jobs Gave to Nonprofits
Steve Jobs benefited the nonprofit sector by radically leveling the technological playing field.
Nonprofit Management
The Networked Nonprofit
Organizations should focus less on growing themselves and more on cultivating their networks.
Philanthropy
What If Funders Really Acted Like Purchasers?
The funder-as-purchaser model offers new frameworks to spur new thinking and advancements in the nonprofit sector.