Transformational Advocacy and the Disobedient Self
An excerpt from Reclaiming Our Democracy on how grassroots advocates are made
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Taking On Tech Governance
How prioritizing technological expertise on the board level can help nonprofits and social service organizations make the most of their resources and improve outcomes for the communities they support.
Learning From an Intergenerational Blowup Over Social Justice
Like so many organizations, our environmental nonprofit was rocked by internal conflict. What happened and what did we learn?
It’s Time to Share Our Failures
Global health professionals need to build a culture of trust in which we can learn as much from what doesn’t work as from what does.
The 10 Most Popular SSIR Articles of 2023
Design thinking, narrative change, AI, impact investing, the future of philanthropy, and more.
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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.