What Strong Organizations Know About DEI
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are much more than a passing fad. They are a framework for engaging an organization’s full strength.
Nonprofits & NGOs Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations work more effectively
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Design Thinking Misses the Mark
Design thinking has failed to deliver on its promise to solve the world’s thorniest social challenges. Adopting a critical design stance can help designers serve communities, rather than their own methodology.
The Lobbying for Good Movement
Too many nonprofits and foundations reject lobbying as dubious. But a new movement is reclaiming this practice as essential for promoting social change.
Adventures in Healing
Chicago Adventure Therapy is helping young people and families in high-crime communities to heal by connecting with nature. | Open access to this article is made possible by the donors of Chicago Adventure Therapy, Jim and Gail Tibensky and Kathryn Dittemore.
No One Left Behind
The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies prioritizes disaster-emergency preparation and relief outcomes for disabled people.
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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.