Civil Society
The Color Bind: Talking (and Not Talking) About Race at Work
The Color Bind explores how color blindness and "color cognizance" can influence professional interactions.
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Nonprofit Management
Programs Aren’t Everything
The evaluation of nonprofit outcomes shouldn't focus exclusively on programmatic activity. Here's a look at what it means to take frontline work seriously.
Nonprofits
Fundamentals, Not Fads
The experience of prize-winning social sector leaders highlights the enduring lessons of nonprofit management. Part one of a six-part series.
Education
Performing Effective Advocacy
An education organization in Pittsburgh transitions from watchdog to community engagement as its mission evolves.
Collaboration
Exerting Influence Without Formal Authority
Part one of a two-part series on how backbone organizations shape the work of collective impact without formal authority.
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Innovation From the Inside Out
Through "inscaping," people in a social purpose organization can excel at developing new ideas and practices. Includes special online extras.
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Education
Stories out of School
The movement to reform public schools through competition and testing is a "hoax," according to a one-time promoter of the movement.
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Cities
Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.
Collaboration
CauseFests: Philanthropy’s New Marketplace
A report from the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative and Social Good Summit—the trading floors of the new philanthrocapitalism.
Business
Looking for Innovation in All the Wrong Places
Who consistently drives innovation in corporate America?