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Big Business and Healthcare: It’s Not About the Money
A global study of healthcare social enterprises shows that partnerships, not investment, are the key to healthcare innovation and new markets.
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Innovation for the Next 100 Years
The president of the Rockefeller Foundation explains what social innovation means to the foundation and how it is preparing for the next 100 years.
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Social Innovation and Resilience: How One Enhances the Other
Social innovations must take into account the complexity of social problems and foster solutions resilient enough to adapt and survive.
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Innovate and Scale: A Tough Balancing Act
Organizations need the ability to both scale up successful innovations and create new ones, even those that challenge the status quo.
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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.