Thrun on the Udacity Model
A follow up to the recent post "Some Questions About Udacity."
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Space: The Social Change Frontier
Exploring open spaces, parks, gardens, and trails as tools for social impact.
Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work
This follow-up on the popular "Collective Impact" article provides updated, in-depth guidance.
Ensuring That “Scaling What Works” Actually Works
For “scaling what works” to actually work, we need a new and improved version that addresses two fundamental constraints.
Some Questions About Udacity
Artificial intelligence professor Sebastian Thrun quits Stanford to create a for-profit online university.
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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.