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Building a Social Investment Market by Design
The work of the Social Innovation Fund should provide inspiration to governments looking to drive social investment at home.
Network Mindsets in Nonprofit Management
Social media guru Beth Kanter discusses how nonprofits can utilize their professional networks to develop a “network mindset.”
Creating Sustainable Societies
Creating Sustainable Societies offers guidance for rethinking today's economic and financial systems to incorporate such ideals as cooperation and democracy.
A First Step for Ed Reform: Getting the Metrics Right
Many programs targeting low-performing students rely on data that doesn’t indicate a real understanding of impact on students’ lives.
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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.