Business
Four Steps to Putting Shared Value into Practice
Lessons for large, multinational organizations looking to embrace shared value and more effectively blend purpose with passion.
Tag: Partnerships
Advocacy
Behind Today’s Breakthrough Advocacy Campaigns
New sources of power and grassroots energy are driving certain campaigns to scale with surprising speed and force.
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.
Philanthropy & Funding
Upending Social Investments
Many philanthropists don’t seriously consider the sustainability of social programs, while public funds often go to projects with no proven record. To be more effective, philanthropists should fund more early scaling efforts, and then hand off successful projects to public payers.
Philanthropy & Funding
On the Brink—Providers Under Pressure
The collapse of New York’s largest nonprofit human services agency is an urgent reminder of the need for funding reform.
Collaboration
The Research Gap in Social Entrepreneurship
A literature review of research on social entrepreneurship reveals that academics and practitioners seem to be operating in separate spheres. A look at why this is happening and what to do about it.
Philanthropy & Funding
Beyond the Holy Grail: Private Innovation, Public Funding, and What Comes Next
After a decade of research and evidence gathering, one education nonprofit convinced Congress that its model is worthy of federal dollars—but even the architect of the model wonders how it will fare in the public sector.
Education
Making School New
In and around Pittsburgh, a cross-sector network sponsors approaches to education that blend technology and peer-to-peer collaboration.
Collaboration
A Chorus for Wildlife
How World Wildlife Fund helped organize a global clarion call to stop wildlife crime.
Collaboration
The Changing Face of Collaboration
New research helps put collective impact in historical context and offers perspective on the challenge of sustainability.