Planning Meets Strategy
The work of transforming an organization starts with a readiness to question its scale, its scope, and even its core identity.
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An Insider’s Tale
A veteran corporate social responsibility leader reflects on “doing well and doing good” at a big oil company.
Legal Matters
Supplements to the article “Creative Financing for Social Enterprise.”
Creative Financing for Social Enterprise
Hybrid legal forms offer only a limited solution to the challenge of helping organizations access capital. Includes magazine extras.
Lost in Translation
It’s time for people in the nonprofit community to reclaim the language of nonprofit evaluation.
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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.