| The fall edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now available online. The print version is just starting to arrive in mailboxes across the country and around the world. Look for your copy soon! Highlights: Fall 2009 Issue
FEATUREs Catalytic Philanthropy
Despite spending vast amounts of money and helping to create the world's largest nonprofit sector, philanthropists have fallen far short of solving America's most pressing problems. What the nation needs is "catalytic philanthropy"—a new approach that is already being practiced by some of the most innovative donors. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle
A vicious cycle is leaving nonprofits so hungry for decent infrastructure that they can barely function as organizations—let alone serve their beneficiaries. The cycle starts with funders' unrealistic expectations about how much running a nonprofit costs, and results in nonprofits' misrepresenting their costs while skimping on vital systems—acts that feed funders' skewed beliefs. To break the nonprofit starvation cycle, funders must take the lead. What Works The Entrepreneurial Union—How the Freelancers Union is modernizing the labor movement for independent workers. What Didn't Work Behind the Curve—Corrupt governments cash in on the Millennium Challenge Corporation's outdated metrics. Q&A Fred Krupp—Fred Krupp has helped accomplish what some thought was impossible—getting businesses to go green voluntarily.
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Sean Stannard-Stockton: HIGH-PERFORMANCE VS. HIGH-IMPACT NONPROFITS Recently I was part of a conversation about how to define a high-performance nonprofit. One issue that came up was whether we were talking about "high-performance" or "high-impact". Now bear with me, this isn't semantics, it is critically important. A high-performance nonprofit is a very well run organization. It has outstanding leadership, clear goals, an ethic of monitoring its activity to be sure its programs are effective, and it is financially healthy. A high-impact nonprofit is one whose efforts have been proven to cause sustainable, positive change. Impact can be seen only in retrospect. Often many years later. Performance can be directly observed. I think high-impact nonprofits are the holy grail of philanthropy. But like any holy grail, it is something to journey towards, not something you demand now. >>Continue reading this post
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