Looking to Nature for Social Innovation
Tapping into latent knowledge within and around us can spark ideas and inspiration for solving social issues.
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Transforming Society’s View of Retirement
A rapidly growing group of individuals are redefining their post-midlife years in ways that hold great potential for themselves and society. SSIR x Bridgespan series.
Collective Impact for Conservation
How effective collaboration led to the largest conservation deal in history.
Putting Politics Back Into Development
Why the international development community cannot ignore the role of politics in creating sustainable social change.
The Power of Profit in Advancing Systemic Change
Commercial platforms offer powerful avenues for solving social problems on a large scale.
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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.