Human Rights
Equal Effort
Behind the recent advance of gay marriage rights lies a decade of careful planning and diligent collaboration. Includes magazine extras.
Tag: Strategic Planning
Podcast
Nonprofits
Embracing Complexity in Social Enterprise Evaluation
In this audio lecture, Brenda Zimmerman suggests approaches for addressing complexity in evaluation systems of social enterprise.
Socially Responsible Business
Three Transformative Business Sustainability Trends
Emerging trends that can re-shape standard business practices.
Nonprofits
Revealing Social Change Beliefs
What nonprofit boards and leaders think about social change matters—and it’s not always obvious.
Nonprofit Management
Planning Meets Strategy
The work of transforming an organization starts with a readiness to question its scale, its scope, and even its core identity.
Review
Technology & Design
A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
Philanthropy
Strategic Planning and Evaluation: Tools for Realizing Results
To enable significant impact, organizations should ask three key questions and decide if formal planning and evaluation are the right approaches to finding the answers.
Philanthropy
Five Things Strategy Isn’t
The language, tools, processes, and practices of philanthropy have evolved steadily and dramatically, but strategy needs rescuing.
Social Entrepreneurship
Attracting the Right Financing for First-Stage Scaling
Growing social enterprises from incubation to first-stage scaling opens up the need to attract different types of investments. The last of a three-part series.
Nonprofits
Why Nonprofit Mergers Continue to Lag
The three hurdles that nonprofit managers must overcome to create successful mergers. Includes magazine extras.