Smartphones and Mobile Payments
The penetration of smartphones in the US has caused jockeying for position in the new mobile payments space—can this happen in developing countries too?
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Becoming a Networked Nonprofit
Redesigning your nonprofit organization to become more participatory, open, authentic, decentralized, collective, and effective—via social media, networks, and beyond.
Actionable Measurement at the Gates Foundation
A conversation with Jodi Nelson, head of measurement and evaluation.
RCTs: Not All That Glitters Is Gold
A look at the limitations of randomized control trials.
Elderly Care and the Future of Social Innovation
Until successful new models for senior care are developed, all other forms of social innovation will be constricted.
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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.