Thinking Small
An excerpt from Amateurs without Borders explores a new wave of grassroots development aid putting NGO work back in the hands of amateurs.
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Four Ways to Age-Integrate National Service
National service programs can bring together older and younger people to serve side by side, producing a windfall of human and social capital, plus much-needed generational and cultural understanding.
Recap of SSIR’s 2021 Frontiers of Social Innovation Conference
Insightful quotes and summaries of sessions from the “People, Power, Resources: Enacting an Equitable Future" conference.
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Equity Is Fundamental to Implementation Science
Implementation science has not advanced equitable outcomes routinely, explicitly, or intentionally. Here’s how it can.
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Trust the People
Centering equity in funding relationships requires trust. It also takes time, resources, and a willingness to shift power to the people closest to the problem.
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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.