It’s Time to Break Arts Philanthropy Out of Its Silo
Connecting arts goals to a foundation’s larger vision can make support for the arts more targeted and impactful.
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To Build Leaders for Social Impact, Universities Must Adapt
Universities play a critical role in producing social impact leaders committed to the public good and prepared to confront the challenges of an uncertain world.
Why Universities Shouldn’t Teach Social Entrepreneurship
For true social change to happen, we must welcome social entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, but universities simply can’t do that in their current form.
When Nonprofits Become Market Innovators, Social Returns Are Exponential
Three lessons from the field for NGOs pursuing social impact investing.
Funding Without Prescription
In bringing the nutrition cohort a carefully calculated strategy, patient capital, and a willingness to let go, Newman’s Own Foundation is demonstrating success at the heart of the collaboration challenge.
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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.