The Benefit of Doing Good
The “social discount” may not be as steep as investors think.
The “social discount” may not be as steep as investors think.
Measuring success in franchise nonprofit organizations.
Susan V. Berresford, president of the Ford Foundation, discusses her approach to philanthropy.
Over the past decade, nonprofit organizations have increasingly made independent documentary film and video projects a central component of their campaigns for social and political change.
Individual development accounts, special savings accounts for the poor that provide matching dollars, are helping people escape from poverty.
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.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
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 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.