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Inside the Buy-One Give-One Model
The buy-one give-one model popularized by TOMS shoes is growing in popularity and in its social impact.
Lessons in Forging Global Change
The successful 15-year campaign to eliminate mercury-based medical devices provides lessons for others creating large-scale social change.
The Paradox of Fair Trade
In 2011, a rift opened within the fair trade movement. What are the tensions that drove otherwise like-minded activists to form rival camps.
Social Innovation From the Inside Out
Through "inscaping," people in a social purpose organization can excel at developing new ideas and practices. Includes special online extras.
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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.