Focusing on Advocacy
The time is now for foundations, large and small, to engage in public policy.
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How Leaders Encourage Innovation
Transformational leaders capitalize on the creativity that employees have.
Improving Teamwork
Collectivist, group-oriented teams do better work.
It Takes a General Contractor
Nuru International identifies proven poverty-reduction programs and aims to take them to scale.
Nonprofits Aren’t More Commercial
A new study finds that nonprofits are not becoming more commercialized.
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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.