The Challenge of Scaling Digitally
The role of emerging technologies in traditionally “high-touch” development organizations—insights from BRAC’s recent Frugal Innovation Forum.
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Centered Leadership: Leading with Purpose, Clarity, and Impact
Through stories, tools, and exercises, Centered Leadership outlines an approach for becoming an effective leader, an approach developed and utilized at McKinsey.
Ambition to Audacity: Takeaways from the 2014 Skoll World Forum
Social entrepreneurship is getting bolder.
Foundation Learning: The Case for Productive Anxiety
A greater sense of urgency can help foundations better use their strategy and evaluation data to learn, unlearn, and improve.
Reflection Through Narrative
How international organizations gain insight, innovation, and internal alignment through story.
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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.