Community Collaboratives Show Persistence and Progress
Local US collaboratives are adapting and evolving for long-term success.
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A “Watch-Out” for Private Foundations Offering Prizes
No-strings-attached prizes incentivize innovation, but private foundations need to structure them carefully to avoid prohibitive penalty taxes.
Building a Bigger Tent for Effective Philanthropy
By embracing a more-inclusive outreach approach, effective philanthropy advocates can attract more funders.
Can B Corps Be Even Better?
B Corps have an opportunity to dramatically increase their social and environmental performance by upgrading their internal management practices.
Investing in Networks Grows Impact
Participation in a network allows foundations to leverage their individual investment by surfacing multiple, ongoing opportunities for collaborative grantmaking.
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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.