Governance
Outsourcing Governance
In The Privatized State, Chiara Cordelli explains how the US government divested itself of its duties and offers solutions for rebuilding the republic.
Review
Tag: Nonprofits
Foundations
Unprecedented Times Call for Foundations to Take Unprecedented Actions
During this historic disruption, foundations should not put their own survival above the survival of the civil society and nonprofits that they serve. This essay is a response to the keystone article in the Up for Debate series on foundations' payouts during big crises. Visit the series page for more reaction pieces like this one
Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofits, It’s Time to Own Your Social Media Audience
A call for organizations to mitigate the risk of change in the social media landscape by strategically decoupling themselves from platforms that are causing harm.
Organizational Development
Using Six Conceptualizations of Capital to Help Achieve the SDGs
By abandoning a narrow understanding of capital as just assets that appear on a balance sheet, businesses and other organizations can harness the value of their people, relationships, knowledge, and processes to move the world closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Technology
Rehumanizing Fundraising With Artificial Intelligence
As nonprofits emerge from the shock of the pandemic and financial crisis, there is an opportunity to rethink fundraising and improve donor retention rates by embracing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.
Health
Equity and Inclusion: The Roots of Organizational Well-Being
To build healthy, resilient organizations, nonprofits need to do more than adopt standard diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. They need to acknowledge systemic racism then commit to and implement processes to upend it.
Leadership
Leadership Transition During a Pandemic
Even in uncertain times and with leadership in flux, nonprofits can recalibrate and make progress.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Spotting and Fixing Dysfunctional Nonprofit Boards
Micromanaging, rubber stamp, and Balkanized nonprofit boards of directors are more common than not, and turning them into high-functioning governing bodies requires being on the alert for six warning signs.
Leadership
Effective Change Requires Proximate Leaders
Leaders who arise from the communities and issues they serve have the experience, relationships, data, and knowledge that are essential for developing solutions with measurable and sustainable impact.
Leadership
When Moving a Nonprofit Forward Means Altering the Founder’s Course
Leaders who succeed founders sometimes need to work against expectations of them and chart a fundamentally new path toward change, even while keeping the original vision in mind.