Don’t Feed the Zombies
When funders aren’t accountable for impact, it ruins the party for everyone.
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Telemedicine in Ukraine Is Showing That High-Tech Isn’t Always Better
We’re seeing remarkable advances in telemedicine stemming from the international aid response to the war in Ukraine. What have we learned that could be applied in the United States and globally?
The Emerging Field of Political Innovation
Civil society has attended to social problems for decades while intentionally refraining from overt engagement with politics. But a new field of practice seeks to reinvigorate democracy by emancipating social innovation from this stricture.
The Invisible Balance Sheet
Nonprofits can better evaluate and deploy their capacity to achieve their missions by accounting for the assets and liabilities that don’t necessarily appear on their financial statements.
Bookstores as Civic Centers
The indie bookstore movement believes the future of bookstores lies in their ability to serve as thriving community spaces.
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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.