Social Impact Guarantees: The Next Evolution in Outcomes-Based Funding
A new take on collaborative funding in Singapore could help outcomes-based funding go more mainstream.
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Understanding the Risks of Nonparticipation in Philanthropy
How philanthropic organizations can better understand the degree to which they include beneficiaries in their decision-making processes, how contextual considerations shape participation, and where problems and opportunities lie.
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Taxes and Giving: The Current and Potential Impact of US Tax Policy for Donors and Nonprofits
How does current US tax law affect charitable giving? What do these policies mean for nonprofits and donors? What strategies maximize the amount of money coming into charitable organizations? SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks with Mike Townsend of Charles Schwab and Company and Hayden Adams of the Schwab Center for Financial Research to help donors and nonprofits think through the impact of tax policies on charitable funding. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
Locally Driven, Network-Supported Systems Change
Neither top-down nor bottom-up leadership is adequate for solving complex social challenges. We need to combine the strengths of both.
How Listening to Constituents Can Lead to Systems Change
Listening to participants allows nonprofits to go beyond the “what” of change to the “how and why,” the first step toward changing unjust systems.
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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.