Humanitarian Innovation in Action
This series, presented in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Innovation Service, explores what innovation looks like as a tool for change and growth within complex institutions.
Organizational Development Innovative approaches to internally driven, organization-wide efforts to achieve strategic goals
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The Art of Values-Based Innovation for Humanitarian Action
To truly benefit from innovation, humanitarian organizations need to regard it as a set of values that runs through all of their practices. The first of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a new series exploring innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
How Businesses Can Take the Lead in Combatting Gender-Based Violence
Five steps companies can take to comprehensively tackle violence and harassment in the workplace.
10 Lessons From Health Care on Quality Improvement
Pitfalls and promising practices drawn from experimentation with quality-improvement methods and performance management in health care.
Six Ways to Boost Public Support for Prevention-Based Policy
Communications strategies for advocates, activists, and researchers who want to build support for preventative approaches to solving social problems.
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The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector
More nonprofits are managing their brands to create greater impact and organizational cohesion.
Engaging Employees to Create a Sustainable Business
The key to creating a vibrant and sustainable company is to find ways to get all employees personally engaged in day-to-day corporate sustainability efforts.
The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership
In the face of increasingly pressing systemic inequities, nonprofit boards must change the traditional ways they have worked and instead prioritize an organization's purpose, show respect for the ecosystem in which they operate, commit to equity, and recognize that power must be authorized by the people they're aiming to help.
Integrating Intentional Influence into Your Strategy
Five practical considerations for organizations that want to use intentional influence to achieve a bold social goal.