All Fired Up
How an insurance company helps its workers support their local fire departments.
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Donor, Heal Thyself
Donor fatigue is ultimately rooted in givers' own reluctance to invest in the future.
The Other 95 Percent
How a community foundation uses proxy voting to advance its mission.
Review: Strong Medicine
The strategic use of vaccines may be the key to spreading infectious diseases in the developing world.
You Can’t Do That!
A venture philanthropist's experience with reforming education.
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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.
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.
Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries.
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular and positive rallying points for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.