Organizational Development
The Power of Convening for Social Impact
Bringing people together in an environment that encourages and facilitates idea exchange is one of the most powerful communications strategies for driving change.
With Kid Power, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF is using technology to leverage children’s desire to help other children.
Bringing people together in an environment that encourages and facilitates idea exchange is one of the most powerful communications strategies for driving change.
Building a brand solely on social impact is not a guarantee for success, and it comes with risks that can take businesses by surprise.
Women need to be equal partners in society for them to be equal partners in work.
Recent randomized field trials provide evidence that most get out the vote mobilization efforts have very modest effects on voter turnout, much less than previously thought.
Why we need to move from “the social entrepreneur” to social impact.
A look at the strengths and weaknesses of social entrepreneurs in Latin America, and how they can effectively increase the impact of their work.
How giant nonprofit networks are shifting their approach from serving communities to solving underlying problems.
Why we need to move beyond prevention-only approach, and invest in the rescue and restoration of current victims.
Emerging insights indicate an opportunity for impact investors to better align commercial and social targets with market realities in Africa.
In adopting data-driven practices, leaders must avoid the temptation to act in a top-down manner. Instead, they should design and implement programs in ways that engage community members directly in the work of social change.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Why we need to move from “the social entrepreneur” to social impact.
How smart, strategic communications can help nonprofits and foundations win.
It’s a modern relationship in a modern world. It’s a marriage full of promise. But does our culture’s celebration of the male-dominated tech world end up overshadowing critical skills like empathy that are required for social change?
Why we need to move from “the social entrepreneur” to social impact.
Helping US federal agencies design inexpensive, user-centered technology products is the mission of an unsung team of developers. Includes video extras.
How smart, strategic communications can help nonprofits and foundations win.
Stories can be overly simple, even deceptive. But more often than not, they help surface and illuminate truth, and embracing their complexity offers deep reward.
Substitute the word “impact” for “social performance,” and current debates in the investment community sound exactly like the ones the microfinance industry had 10 years ago. The investor community can learn from microfinance’s successful efforts to set standards for non-financial returns—the “other bottom line.”