New Ways to Evaluate Impact
Human-centered design and systems thinking can help evaluate social impact in a global context.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Prepare to Update Your Theory of Change
The new book Scarcity provides critical insights for designing better anti-poverty programs, but not for allocating scarce philanthropic resources.
People, Planet, Profit ... Religion?
How legal challenges to the contraceptive mandate implicate social enterprise.
Why Silence Is Not Enough
Business schools are failing to promote higher morals.
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Social Media on Purpose
Marcia Stepanek provides a robust framework for building a social media strategy that fits with the organization's mission
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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.
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.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.