Five Ways to Avoid the Data System Trap
How nonprofits can assess readiness and lay the groundwork for a successful data system.
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Managing Our Way to Economic Decline, Revisited
Businesses worldwide are putting themselves at risk if they don’t respond effectively to the story of climate change.
Sparking Impact Investing through GIIRS
The Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS) has been created to change investor behavior and unlock sidelined investment capital.
Ideas Changing Minds or Money Changing Hands?
Development cooperation support for social innovators is an opportunity that calls for a focus on social and ecological funds and the networks that regenerate and sustain them.
Using the Right Tools
Impact investors must build consensus around standards and best practices.
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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.