Foundations
Philanthropy, the Post-2015 Agenda, and Diffuse Collaboration
In joining the push for meaningful Sustainable Development Goals, foundations need to prepare for a long-term give-and-take approach.
Tag: Organizational Networks
Foundations
Empathetic Donor-Doer Engagement
A seven-part framework for increasing empathy between foundations and grantees.
Business
Could Holding Companies Help Social Enterprise Scale Up?
A look at the benefits holding companies can offer social enterprises and how a trailblazing group in France is leading the way.
Civil Society
Accelerating Civic Innovation Through “Strategic Doing”
A new approach to strategy is producing collaborations that are replicable, scalable, and sustainable.
Measuring Social Impact
Metrics 3.0: A New Vision for Shared Metrics
After accountability and standardization, what should the next phase of measurement focus on?
Measurement & Evaluation
Big Data for Social Innovation
Nonprofits lag behind business and science in using big data effectively.
Foundations
A Global Family Affair
Philanthropic efforts funded by private family wealth—long common in the United States—are on the rise worldwide.
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.
Nonprofit Management
Empowering Movements for Global Education Reform
Our experience challenges notions that quality scaling requires top-down, centralized approaches.
Nonprofit Management
A New Study of Collective Impact Efforts
With Wallace Foundation backing, Columbia University’s Teachers College sets out to learn from past initiatives, document current ones, and find answers to complex questions.