Collective Impact Gathers Momentum
Making multi-sector collaborations work—a report from the CECP 2012 Corporate Philanthropy Summit.
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Evaluation Through a Learning Lens
A focus on learning can enhance and strengthen a foundation’s evaluation efforts.
It’s Time To Be Fearless
Five values are at the root of every fearless approach to creating change.
Local Library or Management Service Organization?
Indiana’s Foellinger Foundation is using free library services to boost grantee effectiveness.
What Workers Want Is What the World Needs
Employers who provide workers with tangible ways to make a positive social or environmental impact will find that it pays off.
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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.
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.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
Ten Reasons Not to Measure Impact—and What to Do Instead
Impact evaluations are an important tool for learning about effective solutions to social problems, but they are a good investment only in the right circumstances.
The Elitist Philanthropy of So-Called Effective Altruism
The superficially enticing “logic” of effective altruism ultimately leads to a moralistic, hyper-rationalistic, top-down approach to philanthropy that can kill the very altruistic spirit it claims to foster.