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Dashboards That Guide Good

By Anne Marie Burgoyne

Funders can help grantees track their progress more effectively by helping them develop dashboards that measure key items.

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Which Fix?

By Justin Cohen

Some school reformers advocate starting over, while others want to keep the same students and site. Both approaches are useful.

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Sell the Wind

By Cathy L. Hartman & Edwin R. Stafford

What are social marketers to do when their target audience couldn’t care less about the change they want to make? Here's how one group got everyday people to care about alternative energy.

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The Wrong Risks

By Sheela Patel 1

By paying so much attention to managing their own risks, philanthropists are no longer attending to the marginalized people who risk so much to make change happen.

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Outrun the Recession

By Alan Tuck, Don Howard & William Foster 7

The seven healthy habits of nonprofits most likely to survive the economic downturn.

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Fundraising in Tough Times

By Mal Warwick 14

Our economy is in bad shape and will only get worse. So what can fundraisers do to minimize the impact of this difficult period on our organizations, and at the same time maximize income?

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Social Entrepreneurship Revisited

By Paul C. Light 25

Social entrepreneurship is one of the most alluring terms on the problem-solving landscape today. The question is not whether social entrepreneurship is a term in
good currency, but what it actually means.

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Scaling Impact

By Jeffrey Bradach 15

Scaling requires not only fidelity to core processes and programs, but also constant adjustments to local needs and resources.