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Transforming Foundation Learning and Evaluation Into a Power Building Strategy
To build shared decision-making, foundations must put aside narrow definitions of rigor and embrace new understandings of accountability.
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Debt-for-Climate Swaps Can Save the Planet. Why Aren’t They?
Though potentially a win-win solution for the developing world’s debtors and creditors alike, debt-for-climate swaps must be well-designed and implemented if they are to be effective.
Strong Boards: An Antidote to Founder Syndrome
A strong leader’s assets can sometimes become organizational liabilities. But why? The problem might be within the structure of the organization itself.
Investing in Black Women Leaders With the Dream Capital They Need
We all benefit when our most transformative change agents are given the time and resources necessary to dream big.
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Compounding Unearned Advantage
An excerpt from Rich White Men on the life-changing impact of inherited privilege
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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.