The Nonprofitization of Business
Two areas where business can begin to learn from nonprofits.
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Silicon Valley Won’t Save the World, but…
Development professionals can learn from Silicon Valley aid efforts, and create more effective and transformative change around the world.
Microfinance and Ethics: Three Pivotal Questions
An exploration of questions central to the microfinance debate.
Charting a Course Toward a Better Education
As the private school sector mushrooms across the developing world, fledgling charter school-style education frameworks are emerging.
Metrics Matter
Business rigor can save and sustain corporate philanthropy.
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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.