Organizational Development
Forgetting Failure
It’s time to move beyond our focus on failure in the social sector, and to develop ongoing and meaningful practices for learning and improvement.
Tag: Strategic Philanthropy
Foundations
The Theory of the Foundation
Mapping out a foundation's theory for itself as an institution can help the organization clarify how it makes choices, allocates resources, and achieves impact.
Organizational Development
The Case for Communications
How smart, strategic communications can help nonprofits and foundations win.
Philanthropy & Funding
A Checkup on PRIs
For one leading health funder, program-related investments promise to help underserved populations.
Philanthropy & Funding
Five Guidelines for Successful Funder Collaborations
Lessons from the Packard Foundation on how funders can effectively work together to amplify their resources and impact.
Leadership
A Network Approach to a “No Kill” Nation
Using a strategy that starts and ends with community-based collaboration, the animal welfare organization Maddie’s Fund and its partners are achieving the ambitious goal of a no-kill nation.
Design Thinking
Using Design Thinking to Eradicate Poverty Creation
We need to ratchet up from targeted innovation and apply design-thinking principles to one of the biggest social issues of our time: global poverty itself.
Foundations
Casting a Tight Net
Humanity United is pursuing a strategy that combines carrots and sticks—collaboration and activism—to confront human rights abuse in the seafood industry. Includes magazine extras.
Big Picture
Understanding Risk Tolerance in Grantmaking
By applying behavioral economics theory to philanthropy, we can better manage grantmaker tendencies toward loss and risk aversion, and the effects of other decision-making patterns.