Governance
Governing a Collaborative Organization
Collaborative organizations require collaborative leadership, but are boards getting in their own way?
Tag: Organizational Networks
Collaboration
Building Real Collaboration into Your Organization
How focusing on the three organizational pillars of culture, people, and leadership can help fuel meaningful collaboration.
Collaboration
When and How to Shut Down a Partnership
In a global development sector tight on resources, partnerships should shut down after accomplishing (or failing to achieve) their missions.
Organizational Development
Creating Breakout Innovation
Nonprofits, community groups, and philanthropists are embracing cocreation as a way to engage a wider community in tackling pressing problems.
Scaling
“Blitzscaling” for Greater Good
Opportunities for nonprofits to dramatically scale don’t happen often, but when they do, fast-growing for-profits offer some valuable lessons.
Collaboration
The Collaboration Game: Solving the Puzzle of Nonprofit Partnership
Nonprofit collaboration is difficult; economics, game theory, and behavioral science offer lessons on how to do it well.
Scaling
From Scaling Impact to Impact at Scale
As nonprofits, NGOs, and funders increasingly seek innovative ways to address the total need around critical issues, new challenges, questions, and opportunities arise.
Collaboration
It’s About Results at Scale, Not Collective Impact
Improving outcomes at scale requires a paradigm shift in how we work.
Organizational Development
The Princess and the Pain Point
Four strategies for scale from a local mattress recycling effort that is going beyond waste reduction and expanding across the United States.
Foundations
Using Knowledge to Improve Funder Practice
Many organizations are creating and disseminating knowledge about the practice of philanthropy, but does that information actually influence how funders operate?