Leading to Local
How philanthropists can learn to better partner with locally led organizations.
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Riding the Wave of Abundance
Five tips for navigating the opportunities and risks that come with unexpected funding, from nonprofit leaders who have successfully deployed windfall support.
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Beyond Greenwashing
An excerpt from Working to Restore on sustainable business.
Don’t Feed the Zombies
When funders aren’t accountable for impact, it ruins the party for everyone.
Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?
As ecosystems of networked organizations, cities provide the necessary scale, reach, and resources to bridge the gap between small experiments and big problems.
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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.