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Paul Rice - Promoting Fair Trade as Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship may be the most promising avenue for solving global problems, says Paul Rice, CEO of TransFair USA. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Rice details his own work to establish Fair Trade. The movement has opened the U.S. market to more than 1.4 million small family farmers around the world who are now getting a fair price for their harvests and making dramatic gains in their living standards.

Donor, Dearest

By Marcia Stepanek

The philanthropic landscape continues to shift as donors are switching their alliances to for-profit causes.

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Merging Wisely

By David La Piana 8

Funders are increasingly pressuring nonprofits to merge, however, mergers are not always the right path for nonprofits in financial distress.

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Dashboards That Guide Good

By Anne Marie Burgoyne

Funders can help grantees track their progress more effectively by helping them develop dashboards that measure key items.

SWITCH: How to
Change Things When
Change Is Hard
Chip Heath & Dan Heath

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A Handbook for Change

Review By Dan S. Cohen 1

SWITCH: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath

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Drowning in Data

By Alana Conner Snibbe 9

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

By John Kania & Mark Kramer 115

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics

By Natasha Joshi 4

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

By William Landes Foster, Peter Kim & Barbara Christiansen 79

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.

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The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee

By Colleen Haight 29

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.