Barriers to Funder Collaboration and the Will to Overcome Them
Foundation leaders know the social sector needs more and better collaboration for impact, but four barriers often get in the way.
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Systems Thinking: A View from the Trenches
Four lessons from one foundation’s effort to put systems thinking into practice.
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Get Out of Your Own Way: Challenging Your Mindsets and Behaviors
Several common barriers to developing strong network relationships—and ways to overcome them.
Connecting Climate Resilience to the Bottom Line
The time is ripe for companies to look beyond quarterly earnings and depreciation schedules, and into frameworks and strategies that will build long-term resilience.
The “Magical Space” Where Technology Increases Impact
The key to using technology for social impact at scale lies somewhere between doing the same thing better and true disruption.
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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.