Lagging Imperialists in Social Entrepreneurship and How to Avoid Them
We need more good examples and fewer good intentions in social entrepreneurship and humanitarian design.
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Net Impact vs. The Hub: Do Game Mechanics Work for Voluntarism?
Game mechanics will mature, and volunteer programs will adopt them to enhance their programs.
REDF Leverages First Social Innovation Fund Grant
A look at what’s promising and fresh about the Social Innovation Fund.
A Straw-Man Plan for Doing Good Better
How to make a cultural shift that leads better outcomes.
Matching Human Capital with Financial Capital Will Make SIF’s Millions Go Farther
Human capital can either be an unanticipated barrier to success or an effective catalyst for achieving it.
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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.