What’s Wrong With Grantee Evaluation?
Emmett Carson, founding CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, discusses the importance of seeing evaluation as a partnership between foundations and grantees.
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The Role of Public Policy in Alleviating Poverty
To really make a difference in tackling inequality, we need coordination on a range of policy issues, from housing and transportation to jobs and education.
Four Questions to Ask Before You Engage with a Network
Funders want to create big change by using networks for social impact. But where to start?
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Elusive Yardstick
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses one of the biggest challenges in the nonprofit world - how to evaluate progress and success.
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Defining Risk in Philanthropy
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses what risk really means to both nonprofits and foundations, and why foundations should take more risks.
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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.