When Mission Doesn’t Matter (Enough)
A cofounder of Cause, a recently shuttered “philanthropub,” reflects on the challenges of mixing business with charity.
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The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook: Pressure Test, Plan, Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise
The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook offers "tough-love" guidance for budding social entrepreneurs.
Interrupting the Transmission of Violence
Cure Violence Founder Dr. Gary Slutkin talks about the health approach to reducing violence.
Making Sense of Data and Information in the Social Sector
A new eBook captures discussion and debate around how to strengthen the social sector “information infrastructure.”
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The Brand IDEA
The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity offers a framework for nonprofits looking to more effectively mange their brands to further their missions.
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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.