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Sidebar to "Act on Facts, Not Faith:" rules to keep in mind when evaluating or developing business ideas.
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Act on Facts, Not Faith
How management can follow medicine's lead and rely on evidence, not on half-truths.
An Enterprising Failure
Why a promising social franchise collapsed.
Giving Donors Control
A United Way affiliate has boosted fundraising by breaking the rules.
In the Mood for Creativity
Happiness, not melancholy, helps sparks innovation.
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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.