Building a Financially Sustainable Social Enterprise in Emerging Markets
Six lessons on achieving financial independence in a resource-constrained era.
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Let the Man Do His Job!
It’s hard to be a government minister in a country where resources are scarce. Don’t make it worse.
Widening Our View of ESG Investing
Two strategies that can create greater environmental, social, and governance change than divestment while improving investment returns.
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Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Cyber Technologies In Our Social Systems
Stanford's Rob Reich and George Triantis, and Eli Sugarman of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Cyber Initiative, discuss the urgent need for better understanding of cyber-social systems.
How Nonprofits Can Drive Healthy Growth Using SROI
Social return on investment is an underutilized yet surprisingly flexible tool for making strong resource allocation decisions that maximize nonprofit impact.
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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.