Grappling With Systems Collapse: How Social Sector Leaders Can Respond
The social sector needs new models for understanding what impact might be possible when the systems we operate in fall apart.
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Helping NGOs and Funders Make the ‘Big Shift’ to Working With Government
The nonprofit sector and its philanthropic supporters still too often overlook the most effective pathway to exponential impact.
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The Power of Funder Collaboratives to Advance Global Health
How collaboratives can accelerate government initiatives to eliminate preventable global health problems, as seen in the case of Reaching the Last Mile Fund’s impact on a neglected tropical disease and the Beginnings Fund’s aim to increase maternal-newborn survival.
Crash Into Housing
How the Bama Works Fund mobilized private, public, and philanthropic capital to transform public housing
Exit to Open
In a difficult time when many nonprofits will be forced to close, nonprofit leaders and funders must act to preserve data and other intangible assets.
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What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
Measuring Social Value
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
What Everyone Can Learn From Leaders of Color
These leaders’ assets go beyond experiences of oppression or marginalization to include the connection, meaning, and joy they can draw on from their respective cultures and communities.
Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean?
A clear definition of equity would seem paramount to galvanizing philanthropy into action around this increasingly used term—but the field is only beginning to explore what it really means.