Social Innovations
Compromise Might Greatly Diversify Leadership of California Foundations and Nonprofits
An effort to broaden and deepen diversity in foundations and nonprofits.
Tag: Capacity-building
Nonprofits
Is Capacity Building Making a Comeback in the Face of Economic Downturn?
There's no time like the present to focus on building the capacity of your nonprofit to withstand the changing economic landscape.
Podcast
Nonprofits
William Foster - How to Grow a Nonprofit Big
Many nonprofits want to expand their staff and funding base so that they may serve a broader public. Until recently, little information was available about how such organizations may do so successfully. In an audio interview with Stanford Social Innovation Review managing editor Eric Nee, William Foster shares findings from the Bridgespan Group's groundbreaking research on what it takes to be in the big leagues. He discusses types of funders to pursue, how to restructure an expanding organization, and whether going big is right for everyone.
Nonprofits
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
Fundraising
Capacity by Any Other Name
Donors don’t know much about capacity building, except that they don’t like the term.
Podcast
Collaboration
Ludo Oelrich - A Public-Private Partnership that Works
"Moving the World" is a partnership between logistics company TNT and the United Nations World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian aid agency. Together they provide food aid to an average of 90 million people, including 56 million hungry children, in more than 80 countries. Speaking at the Stanford Effective Disruption Management Seminar, Moving the World Director Ludo Oelrich explains in this audio lecture how the benefits of this association play out both ways.
Nonprofits
Are We Looking for Innovation in All the Wrong Places?
Innovation requires unbridled creativity.
Nonprofits
Hungry Heart Association
When does a change of organizational strategy become mission creep?