Dump the Prizes
Contests, challenges, awards—they do more harm than good. Let’s get rid of them.
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Tackling Changing Markets with Enterprise Community Partners
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Iraq’s Entrepreneurial Awakening Needs Women
Building stronger nations through social entrepreneurship education.
Climate Risks: Linking Narratives to Action
To effectively manage climate risks we must strengthen ties between the mitigation and adaptation communities.
Eight Social Entrepreneurs Tell Their Personal Stories
SSIR editors select eight books by leading social entrepreneurs about their personal journeys along the path to social change.
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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.