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Spotlight on Women’s and Girls’ Causes: Landscape Analysis and Funding Strategies

Presented by Jacqueline Ackerman, interim director, Women’s Philanthropy Institute; Karen Lundgard, interim CEO, Girl Scouts of Greater New York; Dhirendra Pratap Singh, cofounder and CEO, Milaan Foundation; Mary Jovanovich, senior manager of charitable consulting, DAFgiving360™

Join Stanford Social Innovation Review and DAFgiving360™ for this complimentary live program! Explore recent data on giving to women’s and girls’ causes and hear from social sector leaders on modern approaches to empower and advance women and girls worldwide. Whether you are a donor, nonprofit leader, advisor, or just curious, this conversation will spark new ways to think about your role in funding the future.
 

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Leadership

Grappling With Systems Collapse: How Social Sector Leaders Can Respond

By Liz Ruedy, Tom Glaisyer & Rachel Reichenbach 1

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

By Cheryl Dorsey & Shivani Garg Patel

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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Impact Measurement from a Global Perspective

Presented by Dr. Lisa Hehenberger, Associate Professor of Strategy and General Management at Esade Business School; Natasha Joshi, Associate Director at Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies; Mona Mourshed, CEO of Generation: You Employed; Hyun Shin; Professor of Business and Director of the Impact Business Research Center at Hanyang University; and Brian San, Co-Secretary-General at the Institute of Philanthropy

In this FREE SSIR Live! session timed for a global audience, we will host a wide-ranging discussion with experts from Asia, Europe, and North America on the challenges and promises of impact measurement. How can funders ensure that they are investing their money effectively without placing undue burdens on implementers? Which measures should organizations track to ensure deep, sustained, and meaningful uptake? What lessons have evaluators acquired from creating and implementing measurement programs?

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Nonprofits & NGOs

Nonprofit Consultants for the Status Quo

By Leah Reisman

An excerpt from How Consultants Shape Nonprofits on the history of nonprofit consulting

Philanthropy & Funding

Collectively Owned Strategies

By Jordan Fabyanske, Sonila Cook & Mariah Levin 1

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

By Kyle Crawford 1

When the deck is stacked against change, ambiguous actions can change the game.

Leadership

Using Strategic Foresight to Create the Future We Want

By Marina Gorbis

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

By Susan Misra & Marissa Guerrero 3

Philanthropists must think beyond funding outcomes and invest in the capacity of systems to perpetuate and sustain change.

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Organizational Development

Collective Intelligence

By Charles Conn & Rob McLean

An excerpt from The Imperfectionists on problem-solving in uncertainty