Organizations must first decide what they’re going to stop doing to free up resources for new efforts, says the head of the Drucker Institute.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Taking Design Thinking to the Nonprofit World
IDEO, a design company that has worked with Apple, Ford, and others, has started a nonprofit arm.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Pursuing Innovation in the Nonprofit World
A new Chronicle blog starts a conversation about fostering new ideas.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Grant Maker Helps Incubate Innovation in the Arts
The Doris Duke Foundation is helping cultural groups figure how to deal with changing demographics and competition from technology.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Washington Group Gives Budding Innovators Support to Develop Their Ideas
A Washington group gives money and other help to people with innovative solutions for helping people out of poverty.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Innovators Battle Obstacles to Creative Solutions
Even in an uncertain economy, some nonprofits are pursuing innovative practices, such as Project Exploration, which offers science programs to inner-city students in Chicago.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Education Program Gets Mixed Score on Innovation
Investing in Innovation, an ambitious new federal grant program, was praised for its work to promote proven ideas but said to focus too much on the “usual suspects.”
By Patrick Lester
Contributor
A Nonprofit Group in Boston Sells Foreclosed Homes Back to Their Owners
Nonprofits across the country hope to copy a lending approach that has helped poor people get affordable mortgages.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Round of Federal School-Innovation Grants Announced
The Education Department will award $150-million to nonprofits and school districts in the second round of grants for the Investing in Innovation program.
By Patrick Lester
Contributor
$500-Million in Federal Early-Education Awards Available
The Obama administration plans to spend $500-million in grants to help states expand innovative early-learning and child-care programs.
By Patrick Lester
Contributor
Promise Neighborhoods Bill Introduced in the Senate
The Senate is considering a plan to make permanent a key piece of President Obama’s push to improve education in troubled neighborhoods.
By Patrick Lester
Contributor
Live Webcast of Microfinance USA 2011
Watch a live webcast of Microfinance USA 2011, a conference that brings together investors, government officials, social entrepreneurs, businesspeople, and charity leaders to discuss the future of microfinance. The Chronicle will present a live feed of selected events from the two-day conference in…
New Social Innovation Applications Dominated by United Ways
Fewer applicants are seeking Social Innovation Fund grants during the program’s second year.
By Patrick Lester
Contributor
A Car Company and a Conservation Group Groom Innovative Leaders
A new fellowship project encourages unorthodox tactics for furthering conservation causes.
By Jennifer C. Berkshire
Contributor
Social Innovation Fund Money Hits the Streets
The Obama administration’s fund is starting to distribute money—and demonstrating what it plans to achieve.
By Patrick Lester
Contributor
Charting a New Attempt at Nonprofit Innovation
A new Chronicle blog explores the efforts by nonprofits, businesses, and the federal government to tackle problems like persistent poverty.
By Patrick Lester
Contributor