Health
Routine Health Care in the Time of Ebola
An organization’s response to a wide-scale Ebola outbreak provides six lessons in sustainable impact for NGO leaders.
Tag: Systems Change
Business
Solving Inequality Through Business that Benefits All
New research indicates that strong stakeholder orientation—when companies aim to benefit all parties that could be affected by its success or failure—could help solve inequality by providing competition at the base of the pyramid.
Review
Measurement & Evaluation
Solving Social Problems “One Coin Toss at a Time”
Andrew Leigh’s Randomistas: How radical researchers are changing our world celebrates the triumphs of RCTs.
Scaling
Complex Systems Change Starts with Those Who Use the Systems
Funders and others can better support the involvement of those who use social services in service design and implementation. And by doing so, they can generate more meaningful, systems-level impact.
Leadership
Practical Ideas for Improving Equity and Inclusion at Nonprofits
The journey toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion has no fixed endpoint, but here are a few places to start.
Excerpt
Environment
Sustainable Disruption
An excerpt from Can Business Save the Earth?: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability
Leadership
Mastering System Change
Organizations are increasingly turning to system change to tackle big social problems. But systems are complex, and mastering the process requires observation, patience, and reflection. To begin, here are two
approaches to pursuing system change.
Foundations
Adapting Long-term Strategies in Times of Profound Change
Three ways foundations can equip themselves to better respond to changing contexts.
Collaboration
Does Collective Impact Really Make an Impact?
Eight findings from a recent study of collective impact initiatives, including their effect on systems and population-level outcomes.
Collaboration
The Magic of “Multisolving”
Six principles and practices to unlock cross-sectoral collaboration.