What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?
We need to broaden philanthropy’s view of social sciences.
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Scale = Partnership
Lessons from a new study by the Ashoka Globalizer Program.
Facebook’s Shared Value Status: It’s Complicated
Facebook and Google may be the new poster children for shared value, but is Internet access a critical social issue?
Impact Investing: From Headlines to Fundamentals
A new report aims to strengthen the impact investing industry.
Dump the Prizes
Contests, challenges, awards—they do more harm than good. Let’s get rid of them.
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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.