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How today’s corporate donors want their gifts to help the bottom line.
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The Ratings Game
Evaluating the three groups that rate the charities.
Attracting Attention
The Taproot Foundation provides organized volunteers who deliver marketing expertise.
Random Thoughts
Poverty Action Lab examines why some charitable programs work better than others.
War of Ideas
Why mainstream and liberal foundations and the think tanks they support are losing in the war of ideas in American politics.
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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.