The Charity Trap
Why a recent exposé on Red Cross failures in Haiti highlights unrealistic expectations for social sector organizations.
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Working in the Dark
The nonprofit funding process lacks transparency and fosters insecurity—and only funders can fix it.
Cultivating and Sustaining Generative Teams
Four practices that can help people establish common intent; sense emerging needs and solutions; and collectively prototype, create, and evolve innovative health models and relationships.
Mission-Aligned Investing: More Complex Than It Seems
Even with the best intentions and emerging tools, the current investment framework makes it difficult to match investment portfolios to values.
Four Learning Principles for the Social Sector
Creative solutions to common learning challenges that social innovators face.
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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.