Baseball’s Lessons on Promoting Social Change
Just getting better at business-as-usual approaches is not going to be good enough. Radical innovation is needed.
By Antony Bugg-Levine
Contributor
Interactive Graphics Can Enhance Supporters’ Engagement
As the cost and difficulty of producing such infographics has gone down, more nonprofits are finding ways to let people find their own stories in data.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Charity Adds Design Expertiseto Its Small Staff for Big Results
A Child’s Right, which provides clean drinking water in developing countries, hired a designer who could help people visualize the group’s mission.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How Simple Tests Lifted Online Donations to a Disaster-Relief Effort
Small changes helped raise an additional $1-million, an improvement of 10.2 percent in dollars per page view.
By CODY SWITZER
Contributor
Hull House Collapse Is a Cautionary Tale for Boards and Executives
The closure of a iconic charity offers a sobering case study of how a nonprofit’s leaders and its board can fail to protect an organization’s best interests.
By RICK MOYERS
Contributor
Ask, Don’t Tell: Using Power Questions to Win New Business
Posing the right questions can get to the heart of a problem or idea, keep a conversation on target, and impress potential clients.
By Andrew Sobel
Contributor
How to Use Technology to Inspire Good Habits
Two organizations are blending charity and business to develop creative ways to inspire people to change the way they live.
By Scott Henderson
Contributor
For Executive Directors and Boards, Chairmen Matter
Executive directors who have strong working relationships with their board chairs are happier in their jobs and are less likely to be burned out.
By RICK MOYERS
Contributor
Beware of Nonprofit Management Fads
Often it’s smarter to make sure everyone knows how to follow the old approaches.
By Mark Haas
Contributor
Why Community Health Centers Matter
By treating patients, educating low-income people about health, and providing jobs, the local centers are an efficient and effective way to serve the needy.
By Norah McVeigh
Contributor