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The Promise and Peril of an “Outcomes Mindset”
If government is going to champion outcomes-based policies, let’s learn from our mistakes.
Encouraging Innovation Everywhere
Youth voices in resource-constrained environments suggest that understanding socio-economic context is an important factor in encouraging innovation.
Reconsidering Evidence: What It Means and How We Use It
The tide that has swept experimental program evaluation to the forefront of knowledge building about social policy is suddenly ebbing.
How Individual Donors Can Help Build Movements
It’s difficult to know how—and where—to engage in risky work that may not yield results for a long time. Three lessons can help.
Four Strategies for Staying on the Path to Scale
Strategy, capital, and people are essential to scaling an organization’s work and impact, but they’re not sufficient—to transform those crucial resources into the desired results, nonprofit leaders need to redesign their organizations too.
Measuring What Matters
Five grant performance measurement traps and how to avoid them.
Optimizing International Corporate Volunteer Programs
Four steps to making a positive difference in the field—and developing valuable leadership skills along the way.
A Different Spin on a Market-Based Approach
Even foundations that don’t have an impact investment program can catalyze market-based social innovations by getting creative with how they structure their grants.
Click, Click, Give
Five ways nonprofits can start unlocking trillions of dollars in potential donations from younger individual donors.