Yielding Power to Youth
Making the leap into youth-led advocacy campaigns is a powerful way to walk the talk.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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A New Look at How US Nonprofits Get Really Big
In 2007, we published research analyzing how nonprofits with more than $50 million in annual revenue were funded. Has anything changed?
Measuring the Impact of Training the Trainers: Lessons From Pilots and Plastic Surgeons
How can organizations quantify the impact of the train-the-trainers model? A pioneering new study from a health-care nonprofit offers a template.
Plan C for Greening Business
Engaging directly with business was never the environmental movement’s first choice—and for good reason.
Big Bets for the Long Haul
How to help big bet philanthropy lead to even bigger social change down the road
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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.