Redefining the Hospital’s Role
Boston Children's Hospital is testing new approaches to improving outcomes and reducing health care costs.
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Bridging the Generations
Older people and foster families are forming mutually supportive communities, with help from a group called Generations of Hope.
A Fresh Approach to Food Stamps
In some places, users of the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program can supplement their diet via community supported agriculture.
Sponsoring Hope
A properly designed sponsor-a-child program can have real, long-term impact on the life course of its beneficiaries.
Good (and Not-So-Good) Neighbors
Major local events, with some notable exceptions, spur locally based companies to increase charitable giving.
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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.