Measuring Social Impact
Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Tag: Nonprofit Management
Nonprofits
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofits
The Leadership Deficit
Creative ways to meet the growing demand for talent by finding and recruiting new leaders from a wide range of groups, including business, the military, and the growing pool of retirees.
Nonprofit Management
Pundits Weigh In
Social sector leaders opinions on the article, "The Leadership Deficit."
Environment
Chilling With Greenpeace, From the Inside Out
Greenpeace catapulted Greenfreeze, an ozone- and climate-safe refrigerant, into widespread use and launched the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000.
Nonprofit Management
The Web Is Your Lever
How extreme Internet outsourcing can free nonprofits to move the world.
Social Entrepreneurship
The Enterprising Type
How the personalities of entrepreneurs and managers differ.
Nonprofit Management
What Profits Do for Nonprofits
A rare study shows how earned income helps nonprofits –- and how it doesn’t.
Nonprofit Management
All That Jazz
Managing innovation is more like leading a jazz band than conducting an orchestra.