By estimating the social return on their investments, funders can deploy their dollars more effectively. To demonstrate the power of these calculations, the authors show how three organizations—the Robin Hood Foundation, Acumen Fund, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation—use cost-benefit analysis to evaluate their ongoing programs, choose mission investments, and plan long-term strategies.
Using social media tools to engage people online requires more than just setting up Facebook groups and blogs. It involves effectively creating "social media spaces."
Twitter-fueled “flash causes” have been rising up from the grass roots more frequently to solve a problem for a person or group sharing a common concern.
In a chilly fundraising environment, recruit more volunteers.
A top ten list of ways to enhance your leadership in the nonprofit field.
Those advocating cuts in social services because there are already too many government-funded nonprofits are misguided.
The movement to provide capital to social enterprises is gaining momentum.
Great leadership is all about the ability to design social systems.
Market solutions to poverty, which include services and products targeting consumers at the “bottom of the pyramid,” portray poor people as creative entrepreneurs and discerning consumers. Yet this rosy view of poverty-stricken people is not only wrong, but also harmful.
