The Lobbying for Good Movement
Too many nonprofits and foundations reject lobbying as dubious. But a new movement is reclaiming this practice as essential for promoting social change.
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How Business Can Fight Populism
Populism is re-emergent worldwide, posing direct threats not just to democratic governance but also to socially responsible businesses. Despite the populist challenge, businesses still have an opportunity to do good and support liberal democratic forces.
Digital Sustainability for a Better Future
Digital technologies, when used in the right way, can benefit organizational performance, improve people’s lives, and protect the planet.
Reimagining Our High-Tech World
Although digital technology and society are increasingly and inextricably linked, digital technology must develop in service of society. We must first define the type of society we want and then determine how best to use technology’s potential to realize it. | Open access to this article is made possible by the Omidyar Network.
Cultures of Healing
Low trust and dissatisfaction plague the health-care industry. To improve the patient experience and boost health-equity outcomes, health-care organizations and providers should adopt a more holistic approach to health-care delivery.
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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.