Rethinking the Practice of Best Practices
Best practices can start a discussion, but if you’re looking to fuel real innovation, the ensuing conversation is what matters.
Organizational Development Innovative approaches to internally driven, organization-wide efforts to achieve strategic goals
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Let’s Talk About Water
Solving our global water and sanitation issues in a post-2015 world requires more than simply counting beneficiaries.
Philanthropy in China: The Time Is Now
Three guidelines for philanthropists, foundations, and nonprofits that want to use philanthropy as a means for impact in China.
Becoming a Networked Nonprofit
Redesigning your nonprofit organization to become more participatory, open, authentic, decentralized, collective, and effective—via social media, networks, and beyond.
Merger Secrets to Success
New research identifies some of the factors that make nonprofit mergers work.
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The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector
More nonprofits are managing their brands to create greater impact and organizational cohesion.
Engaging Employees to Create a Sustainable Business
The key to creating a vibrant and sustainable company is to find ways to get all employees personally engaged in day-to-day corporate sustainability efforts.
The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership
In the face of increasingly pressing systemic inequities, nonprofit boards must change the traditional ways they have worked and instead prioritize an organization's purpose, show respect for the ecosystem in which they operate, commit to equity, and recognize that power must be authorized by the people they're aiming to help.
Integrating Intentional Influence into Your Strategy
Five practical considerations for organizations that want to use intentional influence to achieve a bold social goal.