Shared Services Alliances: Part 1
Creating back office alliances—an interview with John Weiser, a principal with the nonprofit technical assistance organization Opportunities Exchange.
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Nonprofits need to share information and resources.
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Skoll World Forum 2010 Kicks Off in Oxford
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focuses on “catalyzing collaboration for social change.”
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Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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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.