Creating Forces for Good in Nonprofit Management
How can smaller and local nonprofits dramatically increase their impact? In this audio lecture, senior consultant at the Monitor Institute and co-author of Local Forces for Good, Heather McLeod Grant shares ideas and case studies of high-impact small and local nonprofits, and how these organizations have leveraged outside forces and agencies to great success. Speaking from Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Nonprofit Management Institute, McLeod Grant analyzes how many smaller nonprofits managed not only to survive the economic downturn, but also to thrive during that time.
Audio lectures brought to you by Social Innovation Conversations, co-hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review's Managing Editor Eric Nee.
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