Transforming Activism: Digital Era Advocacy Organizations
New types of civil society organizations are powerfully and successfully using technology to campaign online and offline for social, economic, and environmental change.
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Cracking the Code of Impact Investing
The creation of “impact classes” as a classification system has the potential to address a number of stubborn barriers in impact investing.
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What Foundations Can Do to Address Inequality
Stanford's Rob Reich moderates a panel with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and Craig Newmark of Craigslist.
Millennials and Hybrid Legal Structures Are Here to Stay
While the connection between Millennials and hybrid legal structures isn’t obvious, these two forces of social innovation share common history, values, and futures.
Why Rewarding Leaders Might Hurt Collaboration
It’s time for the nonprofit sector to create new models for recognizing individual leaders without compromising the collective efforts, movements, and environment of inclusion that they are trying to build.
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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.