An excerpt from Public Goods, Sustainable Development and the Contribution of Business reconsiders the public goods concept and puts forth models for business and the public sectors to respond to the global challenges that our post-COVID-19 world is facing.
Optimizing the path from funder to fundee isn’t something philanthropy has thought about systematically, but the sector should take this moment to build some muscle into it, with an eye toward racial and economic justice.
With careful planning and resource allocation, and a clear understanding of what it means to combine different organizational cultures and visions, mergers and acquisitions can be more than an escape plan, and instead help nonprofits preserve their mission and expand their impact.
An excerpt from The New Builders on balancing scale with innovation and the vital role played by small businesses.
New proposals for monetizing corporate planetary impacts are alluring, impossible, and perilous.
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.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
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 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.
