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Supporting Society’s Bridge Builders
In a world of increasing complexity and polarization, system orchestrators drive collective action to achieve outsized impact.
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Reimagining Collaborative Philanthropy
Collaborative funding models must reach beyond initial funding to build long-term strategies for sustainability, growth, and impact.
Strengthening Africa’s Urban Informal Economies
Conventional needs-based development policies can be harmful to informal businesses. Instead, development professionals must embrace an asset-based approach, identifying how existing collective solutions foster business resilience. | Open-access to this article made possible by the Concordia University Research Chair in Resilience and Institutions, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.
Brewing Fertilizer From Food Waste
The Icelandic startup Melta transforms community food waste into fertilizer, with the goal of cutting emissions and promoting sustainable farming in Iceland.
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Engaging Government in Collective Action
Working with governments to co-create programs and funding strategies can unlock resources far beyond what any single organization can do on its own.
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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.