Economic Impact: A New Approach for Proving Outcomes
There’s a more dynamic and tangible third dimension—beyond efficiency and effectiveness—through which nonprofits can define, measure, and communicate their success.
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Rethinking Spending Rates
Endowment spending rates are at the heart of every foundation and should hold deep connections to mission alignment, values, and governance.
Lean Management in Health Care Delivery Is Late
The current health care market consistently fails the world’s poorest people. Increasing efficiencies and an influx of innovation are overdue.
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Peers Inc
Peers Inc explores how age-old concepts of capitalism, consumerism, and even ownership are taking on new meaning in today’s marketplace of the "sharing economy."
Why [Buzzword] Won’t Save the World
Marketing success doesn’t equal 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.