What Obama’s Campaign Can Teach Nonprofits About Measurement
Five measurement practices that Obama’s campaign and high-performing nonprofits have in common.
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Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity
Collective impact is upending conventional wisdom on how we achieve social progress.
Surviving the Fiscal Cliff
The one thing every nonprofit should do in the face of federal tax increases and spending cuts.
The Truth About Disruptive Development
The West shouldn’t create solutions to problems we don’t understand using fashionable mobile technologies.
Certainty Versus Confidence
Leaders of social change can benefit from making the distinction.
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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.