How to Build Nonprofit Talent Systems During Times of Rapid Growth
Four data-driven, inclusive human resource systems that can help quickly scaling nonprofits maintain their efficiency, values, and performance.
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Buy to Build: Nonprofit M&A as an Impact Enhancer
Mergers among nonprofits don’t have to be distress-oriented deals of survival. Rather, M&A can offer some compelling opportunities that are unique to nonprofits.
When Launching a Collaboration, Keep It Agile
Tackling the world’s many problems does not require starting with large, ambitious proposals. Instead, we should begin with minimum viable consortia—small, agile initiatives that can learn and adapt as they grow.
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When Scaling Goes Wrong
John List’s The Voltage Effect offers advice for companies looking to hit it big, but does the endless pursuit of scale produce more harm than good?
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The Leading Edge of Collective Impact: Designing a Just and Fair Nation for All
Corporate, government, and civil society leaders can use the collective impact approach to address structural racism, restore communities, and design a multiracial democracy.
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How Nonprofits Get Really Big
Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.
Centering Equity in Collective Impact
A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.
The Adoption of Innovation
How do innovations move from the edges to the core of what an organization does? For maximum impact, innovations must cease to be innovative and become institutionalized and normalized.
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.
Scaling Impact
Scaling requires not only fidelity to core processes and programs, but also constant adjustments to local needs and resources.