Leadership
Presenting for Impact
How applying the principles of live performance to presentations can increase organizational impact.
Tag: Organizational Learning
Organizational Development
Building Inclusion from the Inside-Out: A Brief Case Study
The philanthropic sector believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to any social mission, but how can organizations ensure that their own people and processes reflect those values?
Collaboration
Grantee Inclusion: What’s It All About?
Including grantees in decision-making, program-building, and strategy is critical to effective social impact. While the things grantmakers “do” are important, authentic inclusion also requires that they embrace a new mindset.
Advocacy
Four Ways to Fix Broken Communications in the Social Sector
Taking chances, setting high standards, making long-term commitments to improvements, and defining and then measuring success can put nonprofits, NGOs, and foundations in a better position to draw in supporters of all kinds.
Health
The Community Cure for Health Care
Large health care systems are beginning to invest core operating dollars in connecting their patients to community resources, in service of the ultimate solution to better costs and outcomes: keeping patients healthy.
Measurement & Evaluation
Data as a Means, Not an End: A Brief Case Study
How the education nonprofit City Year tackled “measurement drift” by reorienting its measurement activities around one simple premise: Data should support better decision-making.
Measurement & Evaluation
Impact Assessment: Corporate Sustainability 2.0
Unless companies commit to measuring impact, their sustainability initiatives will solve only pockets of social problems or have no real impact at all.
Civic Engagement
Summer Reading: Eight Recent Books on Social, Economic, and Political Empowerment
These books offer perspectives on how we can enable a broader range of people to participate in our systems and institutions.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Five Lessons on Innovation and the Institution
Technology and innovation aren’t just the province of new organizations—a look at how one nonprofit has navigated nearly a century-and-a-half of change.
Video
Foundations
Leadership Is Everything
Mario Morino, co-founder of Venture Philanthropy Partners, discusses how important leadership is to the culture, performance, and success of an organization.