Cuomo Orders Review of Nonprofit Compensation
What needs to be under public scrutiny is the entire range of unfettered discretion in spending that some nonprofit executives—and their boards—exercise.
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What If Funders Really Acted Like Purchasers?
The funder-as-purchaser model offers new frameworks to spur new thinking and advancements in the nonprofit sector.
Just Give ’Em the Money: The Power and Pleasure of Unrestricted Funding
Unrestricted money makes an organization work smoothly, enables innovation, and provides fuel for growth.
Antipoverty Apps
mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices.
How Do Good Causes Achieve Great Design?
Organizations can take some practical steps to harness the power of design to build a strong brand.
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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.