Organizational Learning

Practical advice to help organizations implement results-focused performance management—part two of a two-part series.

Nonprofit Management

Getting Out from Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Why organizations need to build capacities to manage performance, and how they can develop a “theory of change” to do so—part one of a two-part series.

Nonprofit Management

Crafting Successful Influence Strategies: The Big Four

By Kristen Grimm 1

The second in a two-part series on how organizations can successfully influence change by eliminating blind spots that block progress.

Nonprofit Management

Want Influence? Eliminate Blind Spots

By Kristen Grimm

Part one of a two-part series on how to avoid blind spots and plan to use influence effectively to achieve social change.

Nonprofits

Listening to Those Who Matter Most, the Beneficiaries

By Fay Twersky, Phil Buchanan, & Valerie Threlfall 11

The views of those who benefit from social programs offer insight into a program’s effectiveness.

Economic Development

China’s Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles

By Christopher Marquis, Hongyu Zhang, & Lixuan Zhou

The Chinese government’s effort to create an electric vehicle industry illuminates the promise and peril of economic development policies.

Economic Development

Improving Household Balance Sheets

By Jack McCarthy

The Citi Foundation shifts its grantmaking operations to offer hands-on financial training.

Nonprofit Management

Diversifying NGO Leadership

By Donna Bryson 3

There was a time when the all the senior staff of international NGOs working in developing countries came from North America and Europe. That is changing.