Building Bridjs With Public Transit
A partnership between a ride-sharing company, a municipal transportation authority, and Ford is expanding transit access in Kansas City.
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Accelerating “What Works”
There is an urgent need to expand the infrastructure for results-based policymaking at all levels of the US government.
Let’s Redraw the Map
Through a new initiative, Ashoka hopes to make the field of US social entrepreneurship more diverse, geographically and otherwise.
Social Impact Bonding
In Belgium, leaders of a nonprofit are using a pay-for-success mechanism to fund a program for young migrant job seekers.
Terms of Investment
A shift in the language used to describe and report social impact reflects the influence of an elite group of financial professionals.
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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.