Innovative approaches to internally driven, organization-wide efforts to achieve strategic goals (more)
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses what risk really means to both nonprofits and foundations, and why foundations should take more risks.
Nancy Roob, president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, talks about the foundation’s True North Fund, which allows investors to put money into a pool fund that can then support multiple organizations and increase efficiency.
One way to make risk-taking more palatable for social change organizations is to run small, light, nimble experiments––tests not built to win wars, but rather to quickly infiltrate new territory, attack new problems, and inform future tactics.
Nonprofit organizations and social businesses must adapt to technological changes to survive.
Girl Scouts of the USA has overhauled everything from its federated structure to its information technology systems to the way that Girl Scouts sell their fabled cookies.
Nonprofits and their funders need to plan for—and budget for—unforeseen events that can disrupt worthy projects.
People who rise within a hierarchy often develop qualities that make it hard for them work together in groups.
In a hybrid organization, the trade-offs between social and commercial goals are real—and they require careful management.
Iris Bohnet reminds us that we all have our biases—and suggests ways that we might overcome them.
Listen to Jake Porway, founder and executive director of DataKind, talk about how to “practice safe stats”—that is, how to create data visualizations that are both accurate and inspiring.
