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Three types of leadership are needed to build a successful organization.
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Unitus, We Stand; Divide Us, We Fall
An external agency should review the circumstances surrounding the Unitus decision to terminate its 10-year commitment to microfinance.
Am I a (4) Square?
What are the benefits of social media in the social change space?
Nonprofit Institute Haiku Contest
Stanford Social Innovation Review readers share haiku poems about nonprofits.
Neal Keny-Guyer
Neal Keny-Guyer believes that wars, earthquakes, and other disasters create opportunities for Mercy Corps to help improve society.
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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.