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Build Your Organization’s Capacity To Make More Progress

Making progress on a worthwhile mission is where it’s at – it’s the bottom line of a nonprofit just as…

Community Philanthropy in Central and Eastern Europe – A New Introduction

This handsome primer is for people interested in learning about the role that community philanthropy organizations can play in strengthening…

Use Advocacy to Promote Social Change

Advocacy includes promoting changes to public or private policies to reduce the flow of victims from unfortunate circumstances (or from…

How Nonprofits Are Set Up to Fail: Ghosts from Our Pre–Colonial Past

A favorite maxim of mine is that “the fish will be the last to discover water.” We fish can’t easily…

Looking for Evidence of Success: Follow the Action

A curious donor will wonder where they might see signs that their donation is “making a difference.”  My simple answer:…

Nonprofit Development and Evaluation: The Untold Story of Who Benefits from Nonprofit Programs

It’s a nonprofit’s responsibility – and opportunity – to understand and help others appreciate its own  construct of effectiveness in…

How To Save The World: Evaluating Your Choices

“The world isn’t going to be saved overnight, or in a year, or with the one just-right program or policy. It’s people that will save the world, working in a smart accumulation of efforts that together make progress against specific substantial goals.” Steven E. Mayer

Why “Becoming More Like a Business” Is NOT the Solution for Nonprofits

It doesn’t really matter whether you can quantify your results.  What matters is that you rigorously assemble evidence – quantitative or…