What We’re Reading
What Is the Role of Art in Social Movement? Is Theater a “Safe Space”?
Is theater a “safe space?” If so, safe for whom? Or should it be a place to evoke questioning and discomfort, among other…
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How Boards Can Set a New CEO Up for Success
For more than three decades, Ram Charan has been involved in CEO searches in the United States, China, Japan, India, Brazil, and Europe, as a director, an…
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Across the US, government officials, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, philanthropists, and impact investors talk about the need to pursue not just program outputs but “positive outcomes”—results that make a genuine difference in beneficiaries’ lives. For…
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Our Challenge: How are You Strengthening the Social Economy?
The social economy is the space in which we produce and consume social good. Social good can be created by individual change-markers, by non-profits, by for-profit corporations and every organizational…
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Turbulence Ahead: 10 Questions for Nonprofit Boards to Urgently Ask and Answer
Good governance and effective, efficient management are never more important than when facing a sudden or impending period of instability. As we head into a transition of…
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Your Ladder of Engagement is Holding You Back
The “Ladder of Engagement” has become a common part of the digital organizer’s vernacular. However, as the Ladder of Engagement has proliferated, the design of the different steps on the advancement…
Read MoreOur United States: A Letter from our Executive Director
Dear friends,
We’ve got a lot of work to do. Here’s the good news: we in the nonprofit sector have hard work in our bones and, as we emerge from this fraught election season, we have real clarity about the…
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How to Access the Tremendous Potential of Millennial Giving
Whether we want it or not, change always reaches us. It’s an imperative that’s just as applicable to our individual lives as it is for the nonprofit sector. Regardless, nonprofits…
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How to Fix a Retirement Plan at a School or Nonprofit
If you work for a school or nonprofit of any sort, there is a decent chance that your workplace retirement savings plan is not as good as it…
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11 Ways to Spice Up Your Annual Turkey Trot
It’s never too early and rarely too late to think up a fun way to jazz up your annual turkey trot. Whether you’re looking to differentiate your race from previous…
Read MoreSocial Entrepreneurship & Community Partners
Brand authenticity. Consumers want it. They ask tough questions of businesses. How are employees treated? Where do they source their products? How do they give back to community? Companies engaged in social good gain good marks. Increasingly, entrepreneurs…
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How to Make Better Decisions with Less Data
People often waste valuable time and resources to collecting enormous amounts of data but often struggle to convert it into effective solutions to problems. Managers and their teams should think more…
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If Poverty Crosses Party Lines, Why Can’t We Solve It?
The truism that “all politics is local” looks quite different when it comes to poverty. According to a recent report complied by the Brookings Institution, a significant portion of…
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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do
When productivity starts to slide, it’s not always easy to pinpoint the cause. This article argues that if your organization is suffering from productivity issues, you should start by…
Read MoreThe Countdown Begins: New Federal Overtime Regulations
Somehow it’s November. Which means raking leaves, pulling out warm jackets, big pots of soup, turning back the clock, and your 1-month countdown to the new federal overtime rules which go into effect December 1st.
If you’ve…
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An emerging approach to social change may be able to help nonprofits work together to create something far greater than the sum of their parts. This approach is called, “catalytic collaboration.” This article describes how path-breaking organizations,…
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5 Marketing Lessons Every Nonprofit Should Learn from Election Videos
Election videos get political candidates either voted into office or kicked to the curb. In the same vein, a video for your nonprofit’s mission influences the public to vote…
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