Partnerships

In a global development sector tight on resources, partnerships should shut down after accomplishing (or failing to achieve) their missions.

Battening Down the Hatches

By Elizabeth Zeigler 1

Three nonprofit strategies for weathering stormier, leaner times.

Systems Thinking: A View from the Trenches

By Srik Gopal, Donata Secondo, & Robin Kane 5

Four lessons from one foundation’s effort to put systems thinking into practice.

The Collaboration Game: Solving the Puzzle of Nonprofit Partnership

By Jacob Harold 8

Nonprofit collaboration is difficult; economics, game theory, and behavioral science offer lessons on how to do it well.

10 Things You Need to Build Clever Coalitions

By Gemma Mortensen 3

How to make collaboration work in a world of complex systems and exponential change.

Sustainability: A New Path to Corporate and NGO Collaborations

By Isaac Joshua Montes 23

The convergence of shifting corporate social responsibility trends, untapped NGO value, and pressing development challenges holds tremendous potential for driving social impact and business innovation.

Collaboration

It’s About Results at Scale, Not Collective Impact

By Jeff Edmondson & Parvathi Santhosh-Kumar 11

Improving outcomes at scale requires a paradigm shift in how we work.

Philanthropy & Funding

Don’t Give Big. Instead, Invest Thoughtfully.

By Donald Summers 16

This spring, community foundations around the country will host one-day, online giving campaigns for nonprofits in their regions. But the model needs an overhaul if it’s going to benefit more than the community foundations themselves.