Prioritizing Impact Measurement in the Funding of Social Innovation
Impact investors and grant makers can learn from each other.
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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives
Why social change organizations must ensure that their systems, policies, cultures, and behaviors align with a broader concept of leadership that centers equity and justice and encompasses leadership in all its forms.
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Intimate Revolution
An excerpt from Emotional Justice on redefining Black women’s relationship to labor
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Meeting the Moment With Purpose
A polycrisis of numerous converging and intersecting trends is affecting every aspect of society, including philanthropy.
Not Invented, But Scaled Here
What big international NGOs—BINGOs—need to learn about growing external social enterprise solutions.
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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.