Design Thinking Misses the Mark
Design thinking has failed to deliver on its promise to solve the world’s thorniest social challenges. Adopting a critical design stance can help designers serve communities, rather than their own methodology.
Solutions
Latest
sponsored
How We Got Here
Nearly two decades after our founding, the Chorus Foundation and our allies take stock on what we have learned about philanthropy, power, and creating a better world.
The Lobbying for Good Movement
Too many nonprofits and foundations reject lobbying as dubious. But a new movement is reclaiming this practice as essential for promoting social change.
sponsored
We Need a Strategy for Spending Down
Spending down is only a tactic. To turn it into something more strategic, we will need to consider a host of questions.
sponsored
How to Use Integrated Capital to Shift Power to the Front Lines
The Kataly Foundation invests in communities in ways that ensure that more value stays in the community.
Most Popular
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.