What’s Your Endgame?
Nonprofit leaders who ask "How do you scale up?" are most likely posing the wrong question.
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The Hidden Pitfalls of Inclusive Innovation
What business leaders need to know to create successful products and services for the poor in emerging markets.
An Absorbing Problem
To help low-income residents, urban communities need to build up their capacity for using investment capital effectively.
Cuban Remix
In measured but far-reaching ways, a state-controlled economy is opening a space for socially responsible enterprise.
Known Quantity
To be effective, the work of philanthropy should be not just innovative but also cumulative.
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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.