Social Enterprise: When Business Models Serve Mission
Social enterprises combine business activity with social mission. The evidence on what makes them work, and where they fail, is instructive for organi...
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Measuring Impact in the Nonprofit Sector: What Works and What Misleads
Impact measurement has become central to nonprofit accountability. But not all measurement frameworks produce useful information, and some create perv...
Nonprofit Financial Sustainability: Beyond the Fundraising Treadmill
Most nonprofits are financially fragile, dependent on grants that may not renew, individual donors who may not return, and reserves that may not exis...
Advocacy and Lobbying: What Nonprofits Can Do and What the Rules Say
Many nonprofits are confused about what advocacy and lobbying they can legally do. Understanding the rules opens up significant tools for mission-driv...
Technology Adoption in Nonprofits: Research on Digital Transformation and Capacity
Technology adoption in nonprofits lags behind the for-profit sector. Research on what drives this gap and what organizations can do to build digital c...
Community Foundations and Place Based Philanthropy
Community foundations pool charitable assets and direct them toward local priorities. Their effectiveness depends on how well they represent and respo...
Volunteer Management: The Underinvested Infrastructure of Civil Society
Volunteers are the largest human resource in the nonprofit sector. Most organizations manage them with minimal training and few systems, leaving signi...
Racial Equity in Grantmaking: What Foundation Data Show
Philanthropy has pledged to address racial equity in funding. Research on whether foundation giving patterns have changed reveals a complex and incomp...
Philanthropy and Democracy: Can Private Giving Shape the Public Good?
The role of private philanthropy in a democratic society raises fundamental questions about power, accountability, and the appropriate relationship be...
Rural Nonprofits: Research on Capacity, Challenges, and Community Role
Rural nonprofits operate in fundamentally different conditions than their urban counterparts. Research on rural nonprofit capacity reveals the distinc...