Design Thinking for Evaluation and Learning
Three ways design thinking can maximize the relevance and impact of evaluation and organizational learning efforts.
Nonprofits Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and NGOs be more effective
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Disabled Youth Get Quality Jobs
CPDL demonstrates a scalable public-private partnership model that trains disabled youth and links them to jobs in the organized sector.
The Five Stages of Social Innovation at Scale
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Scale = Partnership
Lessons from a new study by the Ashoka Globalizer Program.
A Lab of Labs
A report from Lab2, and why learning to reflect on our assumptions about how change happens has value, whether or not “lab” is in your title.
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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.
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 Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector
More nonprofits are managing their brands to create greater impact and organizational cohesion.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.