Communicating Data to Drive Change
How the Annie E. Casey Foundation has leveraged the power of information and communication to drive public investment in children and their families.
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Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
In Democratic by Design, Gabriel Metcalf looks at how small-scale, self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business can scale up to effect widespread social change.
Forgetting Failure
It’s time to move beyond our focus on failure in the social sector, and to develop ongoing and meaningful practices for learning and improvement.
Do We Actually Want Higher Youth Voter Turnout?
Young people can be more engaged in politics, but major institutions must actually want that to happen.
The Theory of the Foundation
Mapping out a foundation's theory for itself as an institution can help the organization clarify how it makes choices, allocates resources, and achieves impact.
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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.