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Exposing the problems of policy schools can ignite new ways to realize the mission of educating public servants in the 21st century.
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The Collective Impact of Suspending Suspensions
An excerpt of Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How the Challenge Inequity
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.
Against Relevance
The dogma in business school education is that faculty’s research should be relevant, yet serving our students also means questioning what relevance leaves out.
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.
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The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
Stop Raising Awareness Already
It’s time for activists and organizations to adopt a more strategic approach to public interest communications.
How Nonprofits Get Really Big
Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.