Making Big Bets for Social Change
How to close the gap between what donors say they want to achieve and where they actually put their money.
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The Power of Lean Data
A series of recent projects that incorporate lean design principles show that it’s possible to gather high-quality impact data quickly and inexpensively. Includes magazine extras.
The Emergence of Subversive Charities in China
A new type of charity has emerged in China that is able to sidestep some of the controls that the government places on NGOs.
Leading Change Through Adaptive Design
By integrating two practices—design thinking and adaptive leadership—social innovators can manage projects in a way that’s both creatively confident and relentlessly realistic.
The New Face of Corporate Activism
Social intrepreneurs have an opportunity to change their companies for the better, from the inside out.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.