Determining the Greatest Odds for Social Good
How social venture investors can better track the performance of their investments, gauge their viability, and identify projects with the greatest chance of achieving social good.
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Five Accelerators of Equitable Grantmaking and How to Harness Them
In the last two years, this five-cylinder engine has propelled funders to break through historic barriers to change.
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How Funders Can Help Fill Critical Gaps in Technology for Social Good
Why we need cross-sector physical, social, and digital assets to undergird next-gen technologies and how philanthropy can help fuel an equitable innovation ecosystem.
Beyond ‘X Number Served’
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.
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Focusing Government Service Delivery on a New North Star
By investing in a talent pipeline of diverse public interest technologists, government and philanthropy can advance equity, expand opportunity, and make democracy work for the people.
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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.