Rethinking Women’s Work in India
Through innovative strategies for bringing women into the workforce, social enterprise is poised to transform the meaning of “women’s work.”
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Promoting Transparency and Fair Share in the Face of Growing Inequality
To curb rising inequality, global leaders must work together to stop the flow of illicit wealth and mitigate tax avoidance.
Earning the Right to Scale
Throughout the nonprofit sector, scaling is viewed as a cardinal imperative. But a surprising number of organizations are not (or not yet) equipped to expand their impact. Is your organization truly ready to scale? Here is a tool to help you find out.
6 SSIR Articles on Business Sustainability
A reading list of our articles examining how businesses should define and achieve sustainability.
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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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.