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The “Other” Investment Policy Statement
By adapting a tool traditionally used for managing financial portfolios, philanthropists can develop a roadmap to giving, where returns are measured in social good rather than in dollars and cents.
Four Steps to Putting Shared Value into Practice
Lessons for large, multinational organizations looking to embrace shared value and more effectively blend purpose with passion.
Funding Research for Advocacy
How a commitment to effective messaging research helped reframe the debate around freedom to marry and win greater support.
Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy
Grantmakers should provide enough money for nonprofits to pay for all their operations, not just programs and services.
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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.