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Collaborating for the Common Good
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCollaboration among competitors is an unnatural act, but sometimes it's the best way to reduce costs, leverage strength, accelerate scale, or amplify... -
Nonprofit Sector's $100 Billion Opportunity
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleImagine what an extra $100 billion a year could do for philanthropic and other nonprofit institutions. According to a new study, the nonprofit sector... -
Reimagine Your Nonprofit to Survive the Crisis
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFour key areas to focus on: impact, people, finances, and community. -
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Linda Mason
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe chairman and founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions heeded the wisdom of visionary real estate developer James Rouse: Make your passions central... -
Multiplication Philanthropy
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLeverage is the mantra of the times in philanthropy, and rightly so. People want to know that the charities they support are using donations as effectively... -
Mining Gold in Not-for-Profit Brands
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleNonprofits are putting hard numbers on the value of their brands, many of which consumers trust highly. Such organizations are hoping brand valuation... -
Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleContrary to popular perception, business people can be benevolent. For instance, one recent study notes that four-fifths of all Harvard Business School... -
Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTwenty years ago, it would have been shocking for a children's choir to sell singing telegrams or for an organization serving the homeless to dabble in... -
Disaster Relief, Inc.
Global Business Magazine ArticleWhen disaster strikes, many corporations respond generously. After the 2004 tsunami, for instance, U.S. firms alone contributed more than half of a billion... -
Persuade Past Resisters, Chinese Version
Communication VideoDon't be discouraged if your audience is resistant to your ideas. Identify and address these objections head-on. -
How Nonprofits Can Encourage Donors to Give More
Nonprofit organizations Digital ArticleThree research-backed strategies. -
Dancing into a Turnaround
How to successfully manage finances, especially in a creative organization? Keep momentum, adhere to benchmarks, and don't neglect reporting. -
Aligning Your Philanthropic Operating Model with Your Goals
Global Business Digital ArticleA framework to help funders understand who they are and what kind of impact they aspire to have. -
What Executives Should Remember
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn more than 30 essays for Harvard Business Review, Peter Drucker (1909-2005) urged readers to take on the hard work of thinking--always combined, he... -
Should Your Start-up Be For-Profit or Nonprofit?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleYears ago the line between nonprofit and for-profit enterprises was clear, but that has changed. Nonprofits now offer products that compete with those... -
How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems, Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLooking ahead to Davos. -
Audacious Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePrivate philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally.... -
AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks... -
Life's Work: Salman Khan
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn interview with the pathbreaking online educator Salman Khan.
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Should It Survive? Charles Dunlap and the National Family Legal Foundation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This nonprofit strategic planning case tells the story of the Phoenix-based National Family Legal Foundation, an anti-pornography advocacy group which,... -
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Organizational Development Case Study15.05View Details It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making... -
Focused Philanthropy: The Steans Family Foundation North Lawndale Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation decides, in 1995, to depart from its historic focus on aiding individual, needy Chicago public school students.... -
Measured Approach: TEGV Assesses its Performance & Impact on Educational Enrichment Programs
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case traces the evolution of thinking about, and the implementation of, performance assessment at one of Turkey's largest and most respected nonprofit... -
Project Sashakt: The Scaling-Up Dilemma of a Women's Empowerment Initiative in India
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case, set in October 2017, follows the predicament of two enterprising young women, Saranya Das Sharma (Saranya) and Aamiya Viswanathan (Aamiya ),... -
Creating Grassroots Leaders through DHAN's Unique Leadership Model
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details DHAN is an NGO with a difference. It was not a charity, or a philanthropy or service organization but a development NGO, which focusses on grassroot development... -
The Challenge of Drastically Changing Times: The Urban League Adjusts to a Post-Civil Rights Landscape
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details When Hugh Price became president and chief executive of the National Urban League in May 1994, he knew he was taking the helm of an organization groping... -
Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Terry Ann Lunt and Greater Boston Rehabilitation Services (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details At first glance, Greater Boston Rehabilitation Services appeared to be in excellent financial shape in the spring of 1991, when Terry Ann Lunt was named... -
American National Red Cross (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the governance issues facing the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross. After a series of issues--FDA consent decree on its blood operations;... -
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that... -
Bill Wilson: Changing the World
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the life choices of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. A young man with tremendous potential, Wilson hit rock bottom... -
Doug Rauch and the Daily Table
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Former Trader Joe's President Doug Rauch developed an innovative idea to address the challenge of food insecurity, food waste, and nutrition. His concept... -
Evolving Kiva's Impact: Introduction of Kiva Labs and Kiva Zip
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Kiva.org was a website through which individuals could connect with opportunities to alleviate poverty via small-scale lending. Founded in 2005, the platform... -
The American Repertory Theater
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T. - also seen spelled as American Repertory Theatre) first started... -
Scarborough YMCA: Getting Back on Track
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The newly appointed general manager at the Scarborough YMCA was discussing her plan of action with the YMCA senior leadership team of the Greater Toronto... -
Health Care & the Isolated Poor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: The Quest to Make a Lasting Change, Sequel
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The spring of 2005 marked a tricky juncture for the leaders of a program designed to improve health care access for thousands of residents living in impoverished,... -
Growing Home: Creating Institutional Change in China
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2008, Du and Lu, two experienced professional volunteers passionate about improving the state of mental health and well being among Chinese youth,... -
PlaNet Finance: Broad Scope in Microfinance, French Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial... -
Youth Villages
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Tennessee-based nonprofit Youth Villages had an impressive record of serving emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth and their families, with higher...
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Should It Survive? Charles Dunlap and the National Family Legal Foundation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This nonprofit strategic planning case tells the story of the Phoenix-based National Family Legal Foundation, an anti-pornography advocacy group which,... -
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Organizational Development Case Study15.05View Details It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making... -
Transformative Social Impact: Akshaya Patra (B), Video Supplement
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleVideo playlist for case 517028. -
Focused Philanthropy: The Steans Family Foundation North Lawndale Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation decides, in 1995, to depart from its historic focus on aiding individual, needy Chicago public school students.... -
Collaborating for the Common Good
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCollaboration among competitors is an unnatural act, but sometimes it's the best way to reduce costs, leverage strength, accelerate scale, or amplify... -
Measured Approach: TEGV Assesses its Performance & Impact on Educational Enrichment Programs
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case traces the evolution of thinking about, and the implementation of, performance assessment at one of Turkey's largest and most respected nonprofit... -
Orchid Species Preservation Foundation: Choosing a Direction, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case W17247. -
John Trautwein and the Will to Live Foundation, Teaching Note
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note for product W16092. -
Project Sashakt: The Scaling-Up Dilemma of a Women's Empowerment Initiative in India
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case, set in October 2017, follows the predicament of two enterprising young women, Saranya Das Sharma (Saranya) and Aamiya Viswanathan (Aamiya ),... -
Creating Grassroots Leaders through DHAN's Unique Leadership Model
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details DHAN is an NGO with a difference. It was not a charity, or a philanthropy or service organization but a development NGO, which focusses on grassroot development...