Collaboration
Funding Without Prescription
In bringing the nutrition cohort a carefully calculated strategy, patient capital, and a willingness to let go, Newman’s Own Foundation is demonstrating success at the heart of the collaboration challenge.
Tag: Nonprofit Management
Leadership
Leadership Development: Aligning Funders’ Good Intentions with Nonprofits’ Real Needs
The time is right for funders to reconsider how they can make the most of the dollars they invest in grantee leadership development, but they must start by better understanding the leadership challenges nonprofits face.
Organizational Development
Selling Social Change
Rather than focusing so much effort on creating services that are “innovative,” nonprofits need to develop a more sales-driven approach to social change.
Organizational Development
Marketing Über Alles
Too many nonprofits develop products and services without paying enough attention to their customers (the beneficiaries).
Leadership
Five Myths that Perpetuate Burnout Across Nonprofits
There is a pervasive fear in the nonprofit field that focusing inwardly—on our staff, our leadership, even our own salaries—will take away from achieving our organizational missions. That needs to change.
Philanthropy & Funding
Benchmarking Individual Donors
Why small nonprofits need to measure donor retention rates and build a strong fundraising plan.
Measurement & Evaluation
Using Measures That Really Matter
Why the social sector should not relate its work in any quantitative or qualitative way to the GDP.
Organizational Development
Public Organizations, Private Meetings
Given that all charities and charitable foundations exist to serve the public good, why do so few hold their meetings in public?
Nonprofits & NGOs
Updating the Nonprofit Work Ethic
How nonprofit leaders can protect themselves and their staff from burnout and achieve higher, more sustainable organizational performance.