Why Funders Should Go Meta
Spending money on research, or improving the research process, is one of the most powerful force multipliers that philanthropy can leverage.
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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer
On the hermeneutic of generosity, the iron cage of rationality, and accompaniment.
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How Radical Trust Creates Long-Term Resilience
A founder and director finds there is no better way to demonstrate confidence in people, systems, and organizations than to physically leave for a year at a time, every five years.
Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists
In times of extreme political polarization and governmental dysfunction, “leverage-first” organizations create impact by working within existing systems, however imperfect they may be.
Systems Change: Making the Aspirational Actionable
Using a social justice framework for systems change planning can help leaders work out the root causes of social problems and create concrete strategies to solve them.
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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.