In their book, Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather MacLeod Grant describe the key practices they uncovered in studying a cross section [...]
Lessons in Measuring the Success of Drug Rehabilitation Programs The trend toward accountability in the nonprofit sector and the resulting need for performance evaluation is a problem facing the [...]
NEWS FROM GRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS Most foundations are not making changes they and their grantees say are essential to supporting nonprofit success, but there is evidence of a [...]
A December 15 recent radio broadcast on NPR highlighted the gap in how this country provides a social net for the poor. The “Hunger in America,” episode of On Point, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, [...]
One artist addressed this issue at the Second Lives exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design in Manhattan, which runs through April 19, 2009. In a commentary on what language means today, the [...]
As the member of a grant allocations committee of a nonprofit, I was tasked with rating each grant application on a score card that posed the following questions:
Why don’t nonprofits value intellectual capital, particularly marketing expertise, when it can prove crucial to the success of their cause? I encountered that question when I learned about [...]
Citing a $6 billion state deficit, Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy reported at the recent Connecticut Nonprofits Conference that the last eight years have brought “an assault on social services.” [...]
As an expert in branding for nonprofits, I found it refreshing to hear a fellow nonprofit expert discuss the concept of the nonprofit sector’s brand as a whole. Without using the word [...]
While most nonprofits nurture cultures protecting the status quo, designers are inclined to push the limits. I was struck by the lessons in risk-taking and pushing limits when I witnessed my [...]