Collaboration
Walking a Different Kind of Grantmaker Walk
By actively moving into the roles of advocate and partner for grantees, grantmakers can cultivate trusting, transparent relationships that ultimately translate into social impact.
Tag: Organizational Networks
Collaboration
Four Dating Tips to Sustain Strong Grantmaker-Grantee Relationships
Relationships take work—and those between grantees and grantmakers are no exception.
Health
Seeing the Big Picture in Medical Science
A 21st-century collaborative framework has the potential to deliver more effective and affordable therapies by aligning and engaging all sectors of society.
Cities
Building “Silicon Valleys of Impact”
As US cities race to build out strategies for fostering local innovation and technology, there is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to support social entrepreneurs.
Cities
Entrepreneurship Upside Down: What If You Start With What You Have?
Takeaways from a municipal prize competition.
Advocacy
Behind Today’s Breakthrough Advocacy Campaigns
New sources of power and grassroots energy are driving certain campaigns to scale with surprising speed and force.
Collaboration
Four Questions to Ask Before You Engage with a Network
Funders want to create big change by using networks for social impact. But where to start?
Nonprofits & NGOs
Upgrading a Network
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.
Collaboration
A Chorus for Wildlife
How World Wildlife Fund helped organize a global clarion call to stop wildlife crime.
Collaboration
The Changing Face of Collaboration
New research helps put collective impact in historical context and offers perspective on the challenge of sustainability.