Do Volunteers Make Better Employees?
People who perform volunteer work, far from being distracted by it, tend to perform better at their jobs.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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Fatal Flaw
After a disaster, donors to relief funds pay more attention to the death toll than to the needs of survivors.
Leading Indicators
Team dynamics strongly affect the level of commitment shown by volunteer leaders of nonprofit associations.
Shaping Global Partnerships for a Post-2015 World
The principles of collective impact offer important lessons for architects of global collaborative efforts.
Fundamentals, Not Fads
The experience of prize-winning social sector leaders highlights the enduring lessons of nonprofit management. Part one of a six-part series.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.