Blinded by Cause
Sometimes the cause itself becomes a blind spot. Nonprofit leaders must build out the systems that carry their purpose. Otherwise, they’ll sabotage their impact.
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ACLU v. Trump
The American Civil Liberties Union is leading the fight in the United States against the Trump administration's executive overreach. We asked them for a status update.
Local Community Education, Everywhere
With global education funding under severe strain, volunteer-based approaches to community-led education offer a cost-effective and sustainable model for progress.
Advancing Economic Justice in Reactionary Times
A conversation with leading funders on effective responses to crisis, getting unstuck, and whether philanthropy is doing enough.
Crisis Decision-Making: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Making effective decisions under pressure isn't about listing the pros and cons, but about working with how the brain works to weigh what really matters.
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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.