Planning for Uncertainty
Leaders of social change organizations should embrace the uncertainty of strategic plans.
Leaders of social change organizations should embrace the uncertainty of strategic plans.
Foundation CEOs play a complex, ever-more-demanding role—a role that may not lend itself to on-the-job training.
A veteran corporate social responsibility leader reflects on “doing well and doing good” at a big oil company.
Why leadership development takes courage but is the best investment a nonprofit can make.
How Goldman Sachs deployed a far-reaching, data-driven strategy to further the cause of women’s entrepreneurship. Includes magazine extras.
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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.
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.