For much of their history, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been profoundly underfunded. Charged with educating generations of Black leaders while navigating segregation, ...
When organizations treat their fundraisers as quota machines rather than relationship architects, they tell the fundraiser ...
Good missions don’t automatically become good results. Seven self-imposed burdens most often separate the two, and senior leaders can dismantle them.
After all, something must be better than nothing? However, misguided or ill-conceived innovation aimed at helping those in ...
Shifting impact investment toward market creation means doing a lot more than changing how we talk about what we do.
In 2023, Resolution Project and Enactus began exploring the prospect of merging our organizations. The goal was to scale our impact without rebuilding existing infrastructure: Resolution Project had ...
When Rina arrives at the Amazon warehouse, she swipes an employee ID. The sensors inside allow her past the door and then track her location as she moves through the giant facility each day. She ...
A single public metric ranking DAF sponsors by the share of assets they deploy would turn the incentive to accumulate wealth into a race to give.
Collective impact tends to generate strong reactions. Mention it, and the person across from you will likely either extol its virtues or roll their eyes. Introduced in a 2011 SSIR article, the ...
Evidence can identify interventions that have worked under specific conditions. But it does not account for whether those conditions exist in practice or whether systems are capable of creating them.
Technology is essential to the success of nonprofits. Digital tools enable organizations to automate operations, access new audiences, reimagine programs, and assess their impact with greater clarity ...