Nonprofit Management
Planning Meets Strategy
The work of transforming an organization starts with a readiness to question its scale, its scope, and even its core identity.
Tag: Nonprofit Management
Measuring Social Impact
Lost in Translation
It’s time for people in the nonprofit community to reclaim the language of nonprofit evaluation.
Education
Franchising a “Fireball”
Aflatoun, a global social and financial education program, is relying on partnerships rather than centralized control to scale up.
Global Issues
Three Ways the Cloud Can Bring Clarity to Nonprofits
How organizations can begin transforming monitoring and evaluation efforts to support the ever-growing demand for measurable impact, using cloud-based tools.
Nonprofit Management
Leadership Development: Five Things All Nonprofits Should Know
Why leadership development takes courage but is the best investment a nonprofit can make.
Review
Technology & Design
A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
Social Entrepreneurship
What I Think About When I Think About Running
Haruki Murakami uses running as a metaphor to describe his journey as a novelist, but the metaphor works equally well for social innovation.
Nonprofit Management
Transformative Pathways to Improving Health Care
Rather than simply scaling up, one nonprofit is “letting go” of its model and forming partnerships to change the US health care system.
Nonprofit Management
The Business Case for Investing in Talent
Every dollar invested in employee development yields more efficient and effective impact.
Nonprofits
Shifts in Thinking to Achieve Transformative Scale
We need to shift from a focus on production to impact, and leverage principles of platforms, networks, community, and co-creation.