Impact Over Organizational Interest
A look at new research from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.
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Has Venture Philanthropy Passed Its Peak?
We keep searching for the next new thing—at the expense of the tried-and-true.
Crafting Successful Influence Strategies: The Big Four
The second in a two-part series on how organizations can successfully influence change by eliminating blind spots that block progress.
Want Influence? Eliminate Blind Spots
Part one of a two-part series on how to avoid blind spots and plan to use influence effectively to achieve social change.
Mind the Gap
Stronger ties between academic evaluators and social innovators would hugely benefit both sides.
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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.