Microfinance
Financial services for people who lack access to money
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The Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector | 22
More nonprofits are managing their brands to create greater impact and organizational cohesion.
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Ten Nonprofit Funding Models | 27
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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Collective Impact | 43
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation | 25
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design...
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Jeff Skoll | 6
Jeff Skoll is one of the most creative, generous, and effective philanthropists of his time. And at age 47, he’s just getting started.
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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.
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Seven Deadly Sins of Impact Evaluation | 6
Seven obstacles to making good decisions about impact evaluations and how to avoid them.
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Social Entrepreneurs Must Stop Throwing Starfish | 14
Too often we engage in linear, simplistic solutions, when lasting change requires collaborative efforts.
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The Trouble With Impact Investing: P1 | 22
There's only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
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How to Organize Alliances of Multiple Organizations: Part 1
A governance structure for large networks of organizations seeking to achieve collective impact.
Blog Channels
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Big Picture
Commentary and analysis on social innovation ideas and approaches
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From The Field
On-the-ground reports from social enterprises around the world
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Interview
Behind the scenes with leaders of social change
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Point-Counterpoint
One issue, different points of view
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Practical Advice
Tips for social change leaders
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Research Notes
Summaries and analysis of new social innovation research
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Starting Up
SSIR’s hub for students, young professionals, and others new to social innovation
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Watchdog
Investigating organizations and the people who run them
