The Heartache of the Failed Hail Mary
A look at how nonprofits can improve organizational capacity in order to more effectively implement long-lasting social change.
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Kriss Deiglmeier - New Paths to Social Innovation
The blurring of lines between nonprofits, governments, and for-profit businesses have fueled contemporary social innovation. With this convergence of market and non-market practices, we find that cross-sector collaborations provide for lasting solutions to our society's most vexing social problems. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the CSI, defines social innovation, bringing clarity to the term, and examines its current status in theory and practice.
How to Start a Nonprofit Side Hustle: Know the Basics
For those looking to expand their employment options, nonprofit consulting may be the perfect option for your skills.
The Nonprofit World Becomes Flat: How Technology and Economic Needs May Shrink Our Globe
The nonprofit sector can take advantage of the outsourcing movement.
From Lemons to Lemonade: Clevelanders Find New Uses for Abandoned Spaces
Clevelanders are converting abandoned spaces into thriving new businesses.
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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.