The Power of Families: From Poverty to Agency to Unity
How philanthropy can support low-income families to build powerful networks and craft policy solutions that reduce poverty in the United States.
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The Invisible Care of Women
An excerpt from Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs.
Evaluation with the End in Mind
How limited-life organizations can re-position evaluation as a tool to drive progress toward their end goals and measure the enduring impact of their efforts.
Routine Health Care in the Time of Ebola
An organization’s response to a wide-scale Ebola outbreak provides six lessons in sustainable impact for NGO leaders.
Feedback Is Not a Fad
Listening to beneficiaries should be part and parcel of any initiative that seeks to help others. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.
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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.