Building a Culture of Opportunity Within Disadvantaged Communities
How the organization MORTAR is creating entrepreneurship opportunities for poor and minority communities.
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The Rise and Fall of a Teal NGO
Teal—an emerging organizational model centered on principles like self-management and wholeness—has great promise, but to leverage its potential, NGOs must understand its opportunities and challenges.
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Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact
How gender lens investing can contribute to economic prosperity and equal rights.
Development Malpractice In Ghana
How stuff that doesn’t work can screw up stuff that does.
Want to Make America Prosperous Again? Bet on Nature, not Fossil Fuels
Land restoration, clean energy, and sustainable agriculture offer better investment returns and more US jobs than oil, gas, and coal.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.