Merging Wisely
Funders are increasingly pressuring nonprofits to merge, however, mergers are not always the right path for nonprofits in financial distress.
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Dashboards That Guide Good
Funders can help grantees track their progress more effectively by helping them develop dashboards that measure key items.
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A Handbook for Change
SWITCH: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Leap Forward for Social Enterprises
Rick Aubry is designing social enterprises that can succeed on a national scale.
The Power of Theories of Change
Improving the lives of disadvantaged populations requires proven theories of change.
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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.