What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?
The polycrisis requires seeding new forms of holistic problem-solving across multiple systems.
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Advancing the Impact of Collaborative Funds
The social sector has seen an explosion in collaborative funds over the last 15 years, representing a significant shift in the philanthropic sector. This article series, sponsored by The Gates Foundation, invites practitioners, donors, and advisors to reflect on the impact of collaborative funds—what has worked well? What could work better? And how can the field advance even greater positive change?
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Learning From a Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy
A look at how donor collaboratives have evolved over time, and how fund leaders and donors can sharpen their strategies today.
How Regular Employees Became Recyclers
The disappearance of the recycling coordinator role, is a testament to an environmental success story: the institutionalization of recycling in higher education.
Programmatic Asset Transfers as a Strategic Tool for Social Impact
Although often triggered by organizational stress, asset transfers should be seen not as a sign of organizational failure but as a valuable way to help both sides of the transfer achieve their goals. | Open access to this article made possible by The Sustained Collaboration Network
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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.