Turning the Page
Four years ago, a Northern California bookstore reinvented itself as a hybrid social enterprise—and its story continues to unfold.
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A Plan for Healing
After a period of war and genocide, Rwanda launched a national health insurance program that is now delivering sharply improved outcomes.
Accelerating “What Works”
There is an urgent need to expand the infrastructure for results-based policymaking at all levels of the US government.
After the One Child Policy
A pilot project in China aims to give the country’s family-planning agency a new mission: supporting early child development.
Let’s Redraw the Map
Through a new initiative, Ashoka hopes to make the field of US social entrepreneurship more diverse, geographically and otherwise.
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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.