Data, especially cause and effect data, are very hard to come by in the nonprofit sector. We’ve all been asking a lot of impact questions for a very, very long time. How many lives have we touched? How many lives have actually improved? Do we know which social...
Every year hundreds of thousands of nonprofits spend a significant amount of time and money strengthening their leadership, management, fundraising, learning systems, governance and day-to-day operations. Capacity building efforts can take the form of planning,...
The market engine behind our nonprofit service economy is the act of funders and donors “proxy buying” a service or program on behalf of a population. Analogous to “in loco parentis,” where a school plays the role of the parent while children are in their care, in the...
