President Carter’s Inspiring Model of Civic Leadership
His post-presidency demonstrated a special combination of bold aspiration coupled with strategic, detailed, and sustained execution.
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Too Many Elections
Low-turnout off-cycle elections are bad for everyone. Civil society can help.
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Building Tenant Power
An excerpt from Abolish Rent on the struggle to make housing a human right
Fueling Innovation to Navigate the Wildfire Challenge Ahead
The climate-driven wildfire crisis calls for a comprehensive, cross-sector approach to funding, research, and action.
Deep Listening for Impact Measurement
How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.
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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.