From Dependency to Self-Sufficiency
The Africa Governance Initiative aims to support a new generation of African leaders building strong, transformative government institutions.
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Redefining Community Foundations
The CEO of the largest merged community foundation in the world reflects on the changing interests and identity of its donors.
The Power of Unreasonable Teams
Intrapreneurs can accelerate solutions for the complex environment that companies face in the 21st century.
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Tales of an Entrepreneur
The author provides a rollicking and detailed recounting of what it takes to build a social business in Africa.
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When Life Imitates the Internet
Networks, equal access, and read-write products are no longer just core design elements of the Internet; we are making them real.
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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.