Impact Investing
Terms of Investment
A shift in the language used to describe and report social impact reflects the influence of an elite group of financial professionals.
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Business
Between Two Sectors
When a for-profit company partners with an NGO, it must carefully manage employees’ adjustment to a new organizational context.
Organizational Development
Building Inclusion from the Inside-Out: A Brief Case Study
The philanthropic sector believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to any social mission, but how can organizations ensure that their own people and processes reflect those values?
Measurement & Evaluation
Impact Assessment: Corporate Sustainability 2.0
Unless companies commit to measuring impact, their sustainability initiatives will solve only pockets of social problems or have no real impact at all.
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Foundations
Elusive Yardstick
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses one of the biggest challenges in the nonprofit world - how to evaluate progress and success.
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Foundations
Defining Risk in Philanthropy
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses what risk really means to both nonprofits and foundations, and why foundations should take more risks.
Organizational Development
Policies, Processes, and Protocols: Three Keys to Building a Diverse Workplace
We need new tools to address institutional bias, and to set a new standard for diversity and inclusion at social sector organizations.
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Organizational Development
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
An Everyone Culture argues that organizations do best when they build an environment that encourages constant personal development among their employees.
Business
Women and Innovation: Making the Connection
There is growing evidence that greater gender equality leads to increased business innovation, and companies that pay attention stand to reap great rewards.
Leadership
Time to Align
We get 24 extra hours this year, presenting a great opportunity for social change leaders to look at the connection between who they are and what they do.