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.
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Microfinance
Broken Rules, Better Loans?
Loan officers’ discretion plays a large role in determining the success of a micro-lending organization.
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.
Foundations
Foundation Learning: The Case for Productive Anxiety
A greater sense of urgency can help foundations better use their strategy and evaluation data to learn, unlearn, and improve.
Foundations
Experimentation: A Shortcut to Innovation
Leading organizations are placing bets on action over rhetoric.
Foundations
Managing Organizational Knowledge: Five Lessons
Better knowledge management depends on knowing what you don’t know.
Measuring Social Impact
Assessing Funders’ Performance: Five Easy Tools
Measuring impact is so tough that many funders give up, but there are some insightful and actionable tools for funders that aren’t daunting.
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Business
Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More without Settling for Less
Scaling Up Excellence uses stories of struggle and success from various organizations to explore the idea of scaling.
Social Entrepreneurship
Attracting the Right Financing for First-Stage Scaling
Growing social enterprises from incubation to first-stage scaling opens up the need to attract different types of investments. The last of a three-part series.
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Partners in Impact
The president of Communities In Schools writes about the role funders played in helping his organization scale up.