Leadership
Future-Oriented Leadership
Purpose, values, and humility will be the social sector’s greatest strengths.
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Webinar
Leadership
Co-Leadership Deep Dive: Benefits, Challenges, and How to Make it Work
Why are many organizations turning to co-leadership—and how can they make it work long term? SSIR’s upcoming live webinar program will equip leaders with the knowledge, tools, and practical insights for navigating shared leadership models.
Philanthropy & Funding
A New Framework for Foundation Payout
The relationship between impact and time varies issue by issue.
Leadership
Grappling With Systems Collapse: How Social Sector Leaders Can Respond
The social sector needs new models for understanding what impact might be possible when the systems we operate in fall apart.
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From Margin to Mainstream: Social Innovation for Systems Change
Embedding social innovation across sectors is how we drive more durable systemic change. Even in the most challenging times, here are three ways to do that.
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Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofit Consultants for the Status Quo
An excerpt from How Consultants Shape Nonprofits on the history of nonprofit consulting
Philanthropy & Funding
Collectively Owned Strategies
Funder-owned strategies often reinforce donor-grantee power imbalances and focus on short-term measurable gains, thereby limiting philanthropic impact. Global and systemic challenges can be addressed more effectively with strategies that are collectively owned. | Open-access to this article made possible by Dalberg Catalyst.
Leadership
The Strategic Art of Ambiguity
When the deck is stacked against change, ambiguous actions can change the game.
Leadership
Using Strategic Foresight to Create the Future We Want
The future is having a moment. Philanthropic and nonprofit organizations can use the foresight tools long championed by private industry to build more desirable futures for their communities.
Philanthropy & Funding
Investing in Systems Change Capacity
Philanthropists must think beyond funding outcomes and invest in the capacity of systems to perpetuate and sustain change.