What We Really Need
Eight reforms to make nonprofits more accountable and effective.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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Managing Growth
How a Boston educational-services nonprofit is realizing its own potential for growth so that its scholars can realize theirs.
Building a Better Board
How nonprofit board size and independence relate to board performance.
Turning Over Without Going Belly-Up
New hires need more relationships, as opposed to more training.
What Women Don’t Want
How male managers’ patronizing behavior undercuts female subordinates’ performance.
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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.