From Family Data to Neighborhood Outcomes
By offering better early support for struggling families, child welfare services can reduce the need for more serious interventions down the line and improve the wellbeing of whole neighborhoods.
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Leadership Development: Aligning Funders’ Good Intentions with Nonprofits’ Real Needs
The time is right for funders to reconsider how they can make the most of the dollars they invest in grantee leadership development, but they must start by better understanding the leadership challenges nonprofits face.
Critical Competences for Social Impact Leaders
Five opportunities for educators to more clearly connect classic entrepreneurial skills to the social impact field and to foster skills that can serve a range of social impact leadership roles.
Structuring Innovation in the Next Administration
Faced with a potentially dramatic shift in federal policy, how can policymakers, civic tech leaders, philanthropists, and social innovators reshape their approach to innovation, technology, and data so that the US government is more responsive and connected to the people?
Using Technology to Teach the Art of Asking Questions
Technological innovations have the potential to transform education, but only if they encourage a more active learning environment that fosters critical thinking.
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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.