Five Levers for Social Change: Part 5
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
Latest
Five Levers of Social Change: Part 4
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
Podcast
Sustainable Water Treatment
How can a young nonprofit organization make a tangible improvement in people's health through clean water using only the power of gravity?
Shared Space Strategies: An Interview with China Brotsky
Q&A with a visionary leader in the national shared spaces movement.
The Power and Price of Kony-like Campaigns
Personal relationship building and donor development is critical to the longevity of organizations.
Most Popular
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.