Getting to the Heart of Healthy Funder-Grantee Relationships
Three practices successful social sector partnerships can adopt to improve their alignment and generate better results.
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Investing in Communities Affected by Conflict and Crises
How the private sector, governments, and others can use impact investing to better support sustainable social change in humanitarian emergencies.
Grantee Inclusion: A Step Towards Mutual Accountability?
Grantee inclusion is not sufficiently powerful to transform grantee-funder relationships, but it might present a vision for a sector that more evenly shares power.
Five Ways to Advance Conservation Entrepreneurship
Meeting today’s growing conservation challenges requires that we find new ways of thinking about and practicing conservation, rooted in solving social problems through scalable methods and prototypes that deliver results.
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Lean Experimentation for the Social Sector: Build Smart to Learn Fast
How can a nonprofit with limited time and money maximize its chances of success? A talk from our 2015 Nonprofit Management Institute.
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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.