Don’t Let Conventional Measurement Wisdom Fragment Your Impact
Social impact bonds. Evidence-based funding. Investing in what works. To what do we owe this explosion of “pay-or-performance” funding models?…
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Healthcare and Biotechnology
In this panel discussion, company executives discuss how they became entrepreneurs in science and medicine, and what their work entails.
GOOD Questions About the Jumo Acquisition
In the wake of the announcement of the intent to GOOD to absorb Jumo, questions arise about form, functions, policy, and societal value.
Collapse of an Iconic Social Enterprise
The ShoreBank saga provides important lessons for people who believe that for-profit institutions can be used for social change.
The New Abnormal
"The New Abnormal" best describes the current economic and political condition of our nation.
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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.