Nonprofits & NGOs
Increasing Nonprofit Sector Effectiveness
Recommendations for nonprofit staff, board members, and philanthropists.
Tag: Nonprofit Management
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Leadership
Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
Not every nonprofit organization can do everything well. That’s one reason why every nonprofit must work relentlessly to achieve and retain its strategic focus—a commitment to doing what it does best.
IMPACT INDIA
The Radical Frugality Mind-set for Scaling Social Change
How successful Indian nonprofits reduce costs while extending impact, even when scarcity abounds.
Foundations
To Change the System, First Change the People
At the Bush Foundation, grantmakers use an analytical approach to identify the right people who can make a difference, and supply them with the tools, connections, and inspiration they need.
Scaling
From “Lean Start-Up” to “Lean Collaboration”
How to reframe government adoption of social innovations.
IMPACT INDIA
NGO Leadership Development in India: From Pioneer-Founders to Homegrown Leaders
As the trailblazers who built India’s nonprofit sector begin to step aside, a new study shows that NGOs face a significant gap in next-generation leadership. There are barriers to bridging this gap and building blocks to surmount them, but progress depends on founders and funders viewing leadership development as mission critical.
Governance
A Roadmap to Better Boards
It’s time for nonprofits to recognize that diverse groups are more innovative and better performing, and to apply that insight to their organizations’ governing bodies.
Social Enterprise
Small Business Today, Social Enterprise Tomorrow
Communities and the social sector both stand to gain when nonprofits acquire existing for-profits.
Advocacy
Beyond Command-and-Control Campaigns
Many see distributed, directed-network campaigning as the unique domain of small advocacy groups, but the approach has generated impressive results for established organizations as well.