The Art (and Science) of Being Behind
Successful nonprofit leaders anticipate falling behind schedule—but also know how to catch up.
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After Big Data: The Coming Age of “Big Indicators”
How remote-sensing technologies and artificial intelligence will enable new insights into our toughest global problems.
Digital Currencies and Blockchain in the Social Sector
How decentralized technologies are transforming philanthropy and NGO work.
A New Impact Investing Model for Education
School entrepreneurs in India have a new option, with loans that encourage better test scores.
Can the Internet Revitalize Local Languages?
The digital tools that threaten local languages also offer potential to keep them alive.
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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.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.