Many nonprofits face a mismatch of their budget and their balance sheet. Funders can help build stronger financial ...

Why philanthropy should think of due diligence not as a vetting exercise, but as an opportunity to build deeper partnerships that lead to more sustainable impact.

From Model Ts to tea, organizations devoted to human flourishing need to build the human architecture for their people to ...

Collaboration is appealing in concept but challenging in practice. While extensive resources—including ones from the Community Tool Box, The Intersector Project, and NewNetworkLeader.org—exist online ...

Reinventing the wheel—this well-worn phrase describes one of the oldest of human follies: undertaking a project or activity without tapping into the knowledge that already exists within a culture or ...

Nonprofit brands are visible everywhere. Amnesty International, Habitat for Humanity, and World Wildlife Fund are some of the most widely recognized brands in the world, more trusted by the public ...

Scale is about exponential impact. It’s a curve, not a line. Hear me out. The best way to define scale is to look at it ...

A few months ago, I met someone who had just experienced an unimaginable loss: An extraordinary, beloved family member had been killed in a mass shooting that made global headlines. In the aftermath ...

Everyone in the social sector, it seems, is discussing how to use data to deliver social good. The coming years will no doubt see the continued growth in data-driven nonprofits and social businesses, ...

One evening in the early 1970s, Michael Pachovas and a few friends wheeled themselves to a curb in Berkeley, Calif., poured cement into the form of a crude ramp, and rolled off into the night. 1 For ...