Like the Vacuuming, Nonprofit Work Is Women’s Work
If we want the nonprofit sector to innovate, we need to acknowledge the gender gap between nonprofits and the private sector.
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Beyond Shared Value: Character as Corporate Destiny
A new approach to enhancing corporate performance by upgrading the character of an organization.
Parsing Impact Investing’s Big Tent
As the momentum of impact investing builds, the lack of proper taxonomy poses a significant risk to the movement, especially given recent growth.
Building With, Not For
Social good technologists working on building a more responsive and effective government need to be more inclusive of the citizens they’re trying to engage—and stop neglecting the government they already have.
Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics
To achieve greater impact, membership and advocacy organizations must find new ways to measure engagement.
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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.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.