When the Big Bet Fails
The Northwest Area Foundation learns—and shares—hard lessons from a 10-year initiative.
What Didn’t Work
Profiles of organizations or solutions that were not effective
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Collective Impact | 56
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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Ten Nonprofit Funding Models | 33
For-profit executives use business models—such as "low-cost provider" or "the razor and the razor blade"—as a shorthand way to describe...
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What’s Sex Got to Do with It? | 36
An inconvenient truth is hiding behind the current excitement about educating girls.
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The Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector | 28
More nonprofits are managing their brands to create greater impact and organizational cohesion.
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The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee | 11
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for...
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The Strategic Plan is Dead. Long Live Strategy. | 30
In today’s fast-changing world, why freeze your strategic thinking in a five-year plan?
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The Eight-Word Mission Statement | 21
Don’t settle for more.
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Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity | 4
Collective impact is upending conventional wisdom on how we achieve social progress.
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Thirty Million Dollars, a Little Bit of Carbon, and a Lot of Hot Air | 29
Carbon for Water is engaged in a loopy funding scheme and offers a lousy public health solution.
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Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work | 20
This follow-up on the popular "Collective Impact" article provides updated, in-depth guidance.
Magazine Sections
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10th Anniversary Essays
Sixteen special essays on how the field of social innovation has evolved and what challenges remain ahead.
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Features
New and in-depth explorations of solutions to social, environmental, or organizational problems
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Research
Important research recently published in scholarly and professional journals
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Reviews
Opinionated reviews of recently published books on social innovation
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First Person
Opinions and analyses by social innovation leaders
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Q&A
Interviews with social innovation leaders and thinkers
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What's Next
New and innovative solutions to social problems
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What Works
Profiles of innovative and effective organizations
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What Didn't Work
Profiles of organizations or solutions that were not effective
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Case Study
In-depth analyses of organizations and their management challenges
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Last Look
Photographs that inspire and inform
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