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When Launching a Collaboration, Keep It Agile
Tackling the world’s many problems does not require starting with large, ambitious proposals. Instead, we should begin with minimum viable consortia—small, agile initiatives that can learn and adapt as they grow.
Place-Based Strategies for Reviving America
Social problems are entrenched in distressed communities. New approaches for uplifting neighborhoods demonstrate the scale and collaboration necessary to offer opportunity to all.
The Looming Fight Over How We Give Our Data
We face a choice between two models for donating data: one governed by corporations and one determined by grassroots civic action. The winner will decide how much control we have over our digital information.
Deep Listening
Developing active listening techniques is essential to creating understanding and the authentic relationships necessary for social change.
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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.