From Direct Action to Advisory Services: A Pathway to Scale for Social Entrepreneurs
By taking on an advising role, an organization can scale a core innovation with less demand on its resources than would be required through direct action alone.
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In Defense of ‘Doing Too Much’
More investors need to bet on early-stage social ventures that cover all the bases, and more entrepreneurs need to build them.
Can Corporations Inspire Social Good?
Understanding the strategies needed to catalyze cultural change, as well as the advantages and limits of benefit corporations, are critical in guiding enterprises to inspire social good.
How to Support Women Social Entrepreneurs in India
Realizing the transformative potential of women’s leadership in India’s social enterprise sector will require persistent efforts to refine and mainstream gender-lens investing.
How Nonprofits Can Tap Into the Impact Investment Market
Rethinking traditional impact investment products offers a path forward for nonprofit organizations seeking greater access to capital.
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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.