Fifty Shades of Sharing. Or at Least Two.
Understanding the division within the sharing economy is an essential step toward engaging the values-driven segment of that economy with our social change missions.
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Disrupting the Textbook Status Quo
Philanthropy can help educators find, create, and demand better options for students.
Jobs for Better Health
Helping those excluded from the labor market reach their full potential will have a huge effect on health care and the economy.
Adopting the London Principles
A new report shows how innovative impact investing policies are helping Hong Kong tackle its social problems.
Social Enterprises: Serving “Extreme” Customers
Mainstream companies are just starting to pay attention to consumers with nonstandard preferences and needs; social enterprises have sought to serve these customers for years.
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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.