A Rare Merger
The Nature Conservancy and Rare aim to achieve greater conservation impact—and they might just provide a new model for the nonprofit sector.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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Stories as Data
Are you ignoring your richest intel? How organizations can yield a wealth of valuable data through story-based research.
If the Goal is Scale, Promote Theft
Too many smart people are trying to come up with too many new solutions; fostering plagiarism of successful models is the fastest track to systems change.
To Get to the Good, You Gotta Dance With the Wicked
There may not be one resolution to wicked problems and nonprofits can’t—and shouldn’t—do it all.
Using Story to Solve Social Problems
How narrative intelligence can help everyone design solutions and generate useful data.
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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.