Amplifying Impact with Mission Investments
How foundations can reimagine a proven philanthropic tool to more effectively address today’s social and environmental challenges.
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Student Debt: An Opportunity and a Challenge for the Nonprofit Workforce
Student debt is hurting recruitment, retention, and diversity in the nonprofit workforce, but a Federal program is poised to help.
Breaking the Double Barrier of Poverty
Instead of prescribing higher education as the silver-bullet solution to poverty, we must provide diverse and contextualized pathways to disadvantaged children, enabling them to redefine the dominant narrative of success.
Impact India
Impact India online offers ongoing coverage of social innovation in India.
Systems Change in Education: It Begins With Us
To make education systems more adaptive, innovative, collaborative, and empathic, we as change leaders must first model these characteristics ourselves.
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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.