Organizational Learning

Going beyond traditional monitoring and evaluation to focus on feedback can lead to new innovations in the social sector.

The Private Benefits of Corporate Social Incentives

By Marilyn Harris

Employees are willing to make sacrifices to participate in social-impact projects, partly because they see them as opportunities for career advancement.

Getting the Best Possible Failures in Philanthropy

By Jen Ford Reedy 3

What constitutes “good” failures in philanthropy, and how can we have more of them?

Fund for Shared Insight is pooling the cash and convictions of 13 philanthropies to build the field of end-user feedback. Can its leaders become role models for the positive change they seek to create? Open access to this article is made possible by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (Fund for Shared Insight).

Collaboration

Learn Before You Leap: The Catalytic Power of a Learning Network

By David Ehrlichman & David Sawyer

Why learning networks are one of the most effective ways to accelerate learning and strengthen coordination across the social sector.

Business

A Mostly Vanilla Ice Cream Company’s Learning Journey About Race

By Jostein Solheim 2

How a business built on shared values between company and consumer can use those values to help navigate difficult social justice discussions and drive progress.

Organizational Development

Learning to Live in a Team-of-Teams World

By William F. Meehan III & Kim Starkey Jonker

Five years ago, Bill Drayton described the emergence of a new organizational model for the social sector. Recent research highlights its promise.

Measurement & Evaluation

Ten Reasons Not to Measure Impact—and What to Do Instead

By Mary Kay Gugerty & Dean Karlan 10

Impact evaluations are an important tool for learning about effective solutions to social problems, but they are a good investment only in the right circumstances.