Collective Impact on the Ground
An in-depth look at an environmental education collaborative during the early stages of its collective impact process.
Collaboration Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy
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Coming Together from a Place of Strength, Not Weakness
Nonprofits are facing increased pressure to develop new and more efficient ways to deliver on their missions. Thoughtful and unconventional collaborations can strengthen the bottom line of nonprofits while delivering added value to their communities.
Barriers to Funder Collaboration and the Will to Overcome Them
Foundation leaders know the social sector needs more and better collaboration for impact, but four barriers often get in the way.
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Get Out of Your Own Way: Challenging Your Mindsets and Behaviors
Several common barriers to developing strong network relationships—and ways to overcome them.
The Collaboration Game: Solving the Puzzle of Nonprofit Partnership
Nonprofit collaboration is difficult; economics, game theory, and behavioral science offer lessons on how to do it well.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
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.
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
The Dawn of System Leadership
The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.