Segmenting the Research
When does it make sense for NGOs to outsource their research to academics?
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Sharing Nonprofit Collaboration Knowledge and Experience
A new resource helps nonprofits share collaboration knowledge.
Survey: Can Management Consulting Help Tiny Firms Grow?
Predict the results of two recent development studies, conducted by IPA, one of the world's leading poverty research organizations.
Seven Deadly Sins of Impact Evaluation
Seven obstacles to making good decisions about impact evaluations and how to avoid them.
Five Levers for Social Change: Part 1
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
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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.