Early-Stage Enterprises Need More Than Money
Non-financial resources are essential to preparing early-stage enterprises for investment.
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The word from the trenches on how funders can make life easier for everyone.
Ten Years On: Are Donors Different? Were They Ever?
Despite years of claiming the contrary, donors still don’t really care about nonprofit performance or impact.
A New Approach to India’s Water Sanitation Crisis: Part 2
A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.
Organizations Need to “Lean In” Too
Philanthropic organizations must “lean in” and confront the various ways their collective cultures get in the way.
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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.