Fulfilling the Promise: Social Investment
Insight into the process of forming productive relationships with social investors, and whether receiving an investment is the right growth approach for each social enterprise.
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Turning Nonprofit Executive On-Boarding on Its Head
If new executives develop themselves in alignment with the organization’s goals, they will mitigate stress and increase the likelihood of their success.
Funders Aren’t Investors, They’re Purchasers
Is it accurate or even appropriate for funders to think of themselves as—and act like—investors?
Training for Nonprofits That Sticks? Yes, It’s Possible!
The reason many fail to achieve organizational change is that they focus on preparing leaders to change, rather than actual implementation.
The Challenge of Organizational Learning
A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.
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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.