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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment
Prioritization tools are needed to address systemic bias in financial assistance programs.
Healing-Centered Funding for Systems Change
Knowledge of trauma and healing gives funders a way to expand their perspectives, do less harm, and be more effective at systems change.
10 SSIR Stories on Impact Investing’s Next Phase
Ten SSIR articles that examine the growing field of impact investing from a range of perspectives, including investors, philanthropists, nonprofits, researchers, social entrepreneurs, and local communities.
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Sustainable Pragmatism
An excerpt from Environmentally Sustainable Growth on the transition to an environmentally sustainable American economy
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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.