World Literature on Social Innovation: A Quest
A new book makes an important contribution to a field screaming out for diversity—but may also illustrate why there isn’t more diversity.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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Building Networks and Movements for Social Change
Lessons from a new initiative aimed at supporting and developing new social justice leaders.
Crickets Going Quiet: Questions of Evolution and Scale
Can new insights from biology help us reimagine what and how organizations scale up?
Fifty Shades of Sharing. Or at Least Two.
Understanding the division within the sharing economy is an essential step toward engaging the values-driven segment of that economy with our social change missions.
Disrupting the Textbook Status Quo
Philanthropy can help educators find, create, and demand better options for students.
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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.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.
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.