Stanford Social Innovation Review : Informing and inspiring leaders of social change

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Nonprofits

 

Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and NGOs be more effective

 

Shared Outcomes

How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.

 
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Assessing One’s Own Performance

What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.

 

Framing the Issue

Basic principles and practices can inform efforts to monitor performance, track progress, and assess the impact of foundation strategies, initiatives, and grants.

 
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A Focus on Culture

How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.

 
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Risky Business

How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.

 
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Learning from Silicon Valley

How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.

 

Networking a City

The Barr Fellows Network is changing the way work gets done in Boston’s large and entrenched social sector.

 
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Local Forces for Good

The authors of the influential book Forces for Good examine how their framework for creating high-impact nonprofits applies to local and smaller organizations.

 
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A Big Deal for Conservation

A group of conservationists, former bankers, and management consultants have imported ideas from Wall Street to create a new way to protect large ecosystems.

 
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Get Feedback

It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.