The Role of Research in Social Innovation
Are research and practice two coins or two sides of the same coin?
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Storytelling and the Dangers of Disbelief
Social innovators can benefit from embracing complex characters and stories.
Lessons from the Transformative Scale Series
We really can achieve impact at a scale that solves problems.
Millennials and the Social Sector: What’s Next?
How the Millennial generation connects, gets involved with, and gives to social causes—insights from a four-year study.
Animal Protection: A Growing and Global Priority
Protecting animals is integral to solving many international problems; we must use the increasing momentum behind animal welfare to drive long-term change.
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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.