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Social innovation means building a road to the future that doesn't yet exist, without lowering standards.
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Stopping the Detention Machine
John Washington’s How to Close a Camp explores the contemporary growth of immigrant detainment facilities under the Trump administration but argues that entrenched political failures are what makes them possible and what must be addressed.
The Seven Labors of the Modern NGO
Good missions don’t automatically become good results. Seven self-imposed burdens most often separate the two, and senior leaders can dismantle them.
Who Will Raise the Money When the Money Raisers Are Gone?
To solve the talent crisis, we must move from transactionalism to transformation.
The Case for Ranking Donor-Advised Funds
A single public metric ranking DAF sponsors by the share of assets they deploy would turn the incentive to accumulate wealth into a race to give.
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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.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.