Locally Driven, Network-Supported Systems Change
Neither top-down nor bottom-up leadership is adequate for solving complex social challenges. We need to combine the strengths of both.
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How Listening to Constituents Can Lead to Systems Change
Listening to participants allows nonprofits to go beyond the “what” of change to the “how and why,” the first step toward changing unjust systems.
Building Relationships, Strengthening Neighborhoods
Systems change efforts that focus on boosting social capital and collective efficacy through building relationships within communities show promise. But do we have the patience to wait for them to work?
How Science Philanthropy Can Build Equity
It’s time for science philanthropy and communication to cocreate a new era of partnership with communities of color. | Open-access to this article made possible by the Rita Allen Foundation.
Two Experiments With Outcomes Frameworks
The new public management model of governance has failed. But an emerging collaborative and democratic approach shows promise.
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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.