Stop Funding Duplicative Projects
Field scans are crucial for providing data about what has been funded and where funding gaps lie.
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Untangling the Confusion Over Organizational Ethics
A wave of ethics transgressions underlines the importance of comprehensive ethics oversight for organizational success.
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Philanthropy and Inequality
The disruptive force of the "new philanthropy" holds the promise of helping to reduce inequality. But will it actually do so?
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Conservation as an Investment
Environmental conservation and business investment are not mutually exclusive, argues the CEO of the Nature Conservancy.
Diversity and Generosity
Where levels of workplace diversity are higher than average, the level of charitable giving also tends to be higher.
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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.