Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit and Capital Markets
How the law can help social entrepreneurs and mission-committed investors build trust around their commitment to social good.
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To scale their reach when qualified recruits are scarce, innovative Indian nonprofits are seeking out promising candidates from the fringe.
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Unconventional Wisdom
The Rockefeller Foundation’s “scan and search” approach casts a wide net to identify the issues it’s best suited to tackle.
360-Degree Development
Swades Foundation is working to break nonprofit community development efforts out of their silos in India.
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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.