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

Why a market for social innovations is needed now more than ever.

Watch dog organizations don't reach most donors.

Nuru International identifies proven poverty-reduction programs and aims to take them to scale.

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo

The End of Fundraising: Raise More Money by Selling Your Impact by Jason Saul

The National Math and Science Initiative aims to avert the crisis in secondary school education by replicating proven programs.

Organizations that report on charities are increasingly collaborative.

GlobalGiving’s storytelling project turns anecdotes into useful data.

More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel

The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, & Monique Sternin

Seven obstacles to making good decisions about impact evaluations and how to avoid them.

For “scaling what works” to actually work, we need a new and improved version that addresses two fundamental constraints.

We must use our scarce resources to serve disenfranchised people’s needs and demand that evidence of results play a greater role in funding decisions.

The biggest social wins will come from a shift in mind-set that refocuses efforts on improving organizational effectiveness.

The Catalyst Fund’s Manager, Peter Kramer, explains the fund’s goal and application process for nonprofit collaborations.

In order to succeed, philanthropies, like baseball teams, must rely on both objective and subjective analysis.

Measurement can attract money. A nonprofit that can demonstrate results and improvement is more inviting to potential donors than one that can’t.

It is critical that high-performing organizations learn how to tell authentic stories about their impact.

The sector needs to shift the definition of success from organizations that survive to organizations that actually achieve their missions.

Social impact bonds. Evidence-based funding. Investing in what works. To what do we owe this explosion of “pay-or-performance” funding models?…

The CEOs of three nonprofit organizations reflect upon the speed and tact with which they must adapt their strategies and directions in a new century.

Jean Oelwang, CEO of Virgin Unite, argues that nonprofit organizations have a lot to learn from the business practices of the private sector if they wish to maximize their impact.