Reading List: Leading Through Change
A list of articles on fundraising, AI, mental health in the workplace, the changing landscape of philanthropy, and other topics on the minds of nonprofit leaders.
A list of articles on fundraising, AI, mental health in the workplace, the changing landscape of philanthropy, and other topics on the minds of nonprofit leaders.
How to disentangle the different scales through which organizations build their capacity
Nonprofits seeking to improve communities face the hard work of building trust. Success requires prioritizing the people you work with and proceeding patiently.
OutcomesX aspires to level the playing field for nonprofits seeking funding.
Chariot aims to simplify donor-advised-fund giving online to a 15-second process.
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.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
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.
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.