Unreasonable and Ready
A new social enterprise incubator fills two critical gaps facing social entrepreneurs: mentoring and access to capital.
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Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
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Doing Good by Being Bad
MOVING POLITICS: Emotions and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould
The Mouths of Gift Horses
Why nonprofits should court contributions that help both themselves and society.
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Claire A. Williams, Lara Vogel - Using Social Enterprise to Outpace Poverty
Hope Runs is a nonprofit social enterprise working in Kenya and Tanzania that uses athletics, education, and social entrepreneurship to empower AIDS orphans. In this audio interview, founders Claire Williams and Lara Vogel talk about how they have turned their idea of using marathon running to "outpace poverty" into a vital organization that partners with AIDS orphanages to have a real influence in children's lives. They discuss their model, how they use volunteers, and advice for social entrepreneurs.
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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.
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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.