Competing Principles
Race to the Top, a $4 billion US education reform effort, produced valuable lessons on designing a competition-based program.
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Foreign Disentanglement
To counter restrictions on NGO activity, local groups need to reduce their dependence on international financial support.
Girls Talk
Supplements to the article “The Gift of Time.”
The Gift of Time
Careful product design enabled Days for Girls to create a solution that empowers its users at a critical stage of their lives. Includes magazine extras.
Conditions of Engagement
By imposing requirements on recipients, cash transfer programs can “push” them to develop habits of civic participation.
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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.