Organizational Development
10 Lessons From Health Care on Quality Improvement
Pitfalls and promising practices drawn from experimentation with quality-improvement methods and performance management in health care.
Tag: Organizational Learning
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Alienation of Impact Reporting
Social-impact reports using language imported from business, finance, accounting, and corporate human resources cause nonprofit employees to feel estranged from their own values and the purported values of their organizations. A Research article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Advocacy
Six Ways to Boost Public Support for Prevention-Based Policy
Communications strategies for advocates, activists, and researchers who want to build support for preventative approaches to solving social problems.
Technology
Demystifying Machine Learning for Global Development
Machine learning is neither a panacea nor as technically daunting as some believe. When it comes to global development, the key is to ask the right questions, and then see if and how it can help.
IMPACT INDIA
When Social Change Requires Behavioral Change
Leaders behind two social impact efforts in India discovered that before they could improve lives, they first had to shift mindsets.
Philanthropy & Funding
How Philanthropic Collaborations Succeed, and Why They Fail
Funders need to push past politeness and hammer out expectations for how their collective action will create value—for beneficiaries, grantees, and themselves—beyond what they could do alone.
Podcast
Technology
Strengthening Data Capacity in the Social Sector
Scaling up data capacity requires champions at every level, be that a school district, state government, or national network.
Advocacy
How to Use Stories to Bring ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Together
To build more inclusive movements, social advocacy organizations and activists need to create stories that can engage both familiar and new communities.
Excerpt
Technology
Developing Digital Culture
An excerpt from The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation explains the value of culture in organizational work.
Organizational Development
Scaling Nonprofit Impact Through Consulting
Six strategies for nonprofits looking to generate earned revenue and scale their social impact through consulting.