The Enterprising Type
How the personalities of entrepreneurs and managers differ.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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What Profits Do for Nonprofits
A rare study shows how earned income helps nonprofits –- and how it doesn’t.
Crossing Over
Sidebar to the article, "What Business Execs Don’t Know -- but Should -- About Nonprofits."
Capacity by Any Other Name
Donors don’t know much about capacity building, except that they don’t like the term.
At Cross Purposes
Sidebar to "Crisis Mentality:" the Red Cross comes under fire.
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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.