When Nonprofits Become Market Innovators, Social Returns Are Exponential
Three lessons from the field for NGOs pursuing social impact investing.
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Funding Without Prescription
In bringing the nutrition cohort a carefully calculated strategy, patient capital, and a willingness to let go, Newman’s Own Foundation is demonstrating success at the heart of the collaboration challenge.
How to Make Crowdfunding More Inclusive
To realize their potential, crowdfunding efforts need to engage traditionally excluded communities by emphasizing more than one bottom line.
Measuring Outcomes to Improve Social Services
Funders can support positive change by backing proven, replicable interventions and new measurement tools that help draw the connection between services offered and results achieved.
How Investors Can (and Can’t) Create Social Value
A growing number of investors are attempting to create social value with their investments, but it’s often more difficult to achieve than one might think.
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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.