When Philanthropy Meets Advocacy
Increasing numbers of Americans want charitable organizations to step into the public policy arena and lead the causes they care about.
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The Code for Success
Girls Coding, a free after-school and weekend program run by Pearls Africa Foundation, seeks to create a pathway out of poverty and bring its students into Nigeria’s male-dominated technology sector.
Beyond the Block
Chicago’s My Block My Hood My City uses the concept of travel to get young, low-income residents more connected with their city.
Bidding for Development Aid
For-profits and nonprofits play different roles in bidding for international development contracts.
Collaborating Is Hard Work
Cross-sector collaborations can break down when the interests, expectations, and power dynamics of the participants conflict.
Rethinking Development Work
Practitioners and funders in global development need less idealism and more pragmatism, Adam D. Kiš argues in The Development Trap.
Rethinking Six Management Mantras for Better Innovation
A starting point for social sector leaders to develop their organizations’ innovation capacity.
How Funders Can Support Nonprofits Now
Notes on building capacity during a time of disruption.
Complexity Demands New Approaches to Work
Social sector organizations must consider whether their internal operating system is serving them, their clients, and their pursuit of social impact.
Tackling Digital Security Across Civil Society
Four steps civil society organizations and their funders can take to begin addressing digital risk.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Force for Good
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence offer enormous benefits for mission-driven organizations and could eventually revolutionize how they work.
Why Collaborations Fail
What lies under the word, “uncollaborative”? Usually, it’s an unaddressed power imbalance.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
When Philanthropy Meets Advocacy
Increasing numbers of Americans want charitable organizations to step into the public policy arena and lead the causes they care about.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
For-profit executives use business models—such as "low-cost provider"—as a shorthand way to describe the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives have not had an equivalent lexicon—until now.