Collaboration
Filling the Gaps in Collective Impact
Nine supporting activities that can help make collective impact approaches to social change more nuanced and rigorous.
Tag: Nonprofit Management
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Alienation of Impact Reporting
Social-impact reports using language imported from business, finance, accounting, and corporate human resources cause nonprofit employees to feel estranged from their own values and the purported values of their organizations. A Research article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Social Enterprise
The Many Roads to Revenue Generation
Nonprofits that wish to integrate revenue-generating activities into their operations must think strategically about who will benefit from them and how they will further their social mission. A feature story from the Fall 2019 issue.
Technology
Demystifying Machine Learning for Global Development
Machine learning is neither a panacea nor as technically daunting as some believe. When it comes to global development, the key is to ask the right questions, and then see if and how it can help.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How to Transition Social Solutions to Government
A framework for nonprofit and private-sector organizations working to transfer the implementation of their solutions to government agencies.
Advocacy
How to Use Stories to Bring ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Together
To build more inclusive movements, social advocacy organizations and activists need to create stories that can engage both familiar and new communities.
Excerpt
Philanthropy & Funding
Strategy Done Wrong
An excerpt of Giving Done Right details the death of top-down philanthropy.
Organizational Development
A Trauma Lens for Systems Change
The Missouri Model lays out a framework, based on the science of trauma, that organizations can use to shift culture and policies and improve outcomes. A feature article from the Summer 2019 issue.
Organizational Development
Eight Practices for Strategic Agility
Rather than a glossy brochure that no one reads, your strategy should be an ongoing practice that informs your decisions and adapts as circumstances change. A Viewpoint from the Summer 2019 issue.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Bolder Goals, Bigger Breakthroughs
Nonprofits that set their sights higher can achieve more.