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GlobalGiving Co-Founder: Make Social Impact Matter To You, Not Just Funders
Mari KuraishiCo-Founder + President, GlobalGivingWho She Is:Mari co-founded GlobalGiving with Dennis Whittle in 2002 and currently leads the organization. In 2011, she was named one of Foreign Policy's...
View ArticleWhy The Nonprofit Sector Should Be Excited About Net Promoter Scores
Every 90 days, I get an email in my inbox with the subject line “Continuous Improvement.” In the email, I’m asked how likely I would be to recommend my gym to my friends and family on a 0-10 scale with...
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Practical Data: Lessons From A Nonprofit Monitoring And Evaluation Specialist
Sophie SahafVice President, Program and Evaluation, LIFTWho she Is:Sophie Sahaf supports the design, delivery, and evaluation of programs that help families break the cycle of poverty at LIFT, a...
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Former Foundation Manager To Nonprofits: ‘Never Be Afraid’ Of Feedback
David BonbrightFounder + Chief Executive, Keystone AccountabilityWho He Is:David leads a group of consultants that help organizations harness feedback from their communities of service. Over the past...
View ArticleThe Elephant Listeners: Inside A Pachyderm Study In Thailand
The collection of scientific data is a vital part of the work we do at GVI Chiang Mai, and we are constantly seeking ways to improve and develop our projects. That includes our project, Alternative...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Listen, Act, Learn. Repeat.
They listen to the people they serve, act on what they hear, and learn from their actions, improving their organizations and amplifying their impact. It’s a cycle of progress: Listen, Act, Learn....
View ArticleBehind The Bicycles: What A Nonprofit Learned From A Simple Survey
The Big Question How do our community members feel about the services that our nonprofit provides? What We Tested Gram Vikas Trust enables rural women and underprivileged children to control their...
View ArticleHow A Village In India Taught Their Government To Listen
THE CHALLENGE Left out of development The village of Jamalpur was not invited to be part of the annual government planning process in 2015, and the community was not offered anything they wanted. My...
View ArticleGG Rewards: How GlobalGiving Promotes The Most Effective Nonprofits
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What A Liberian Nonprofit Learned From Failure
LISTEN Dr. LeRoy Boikai grew up in Liberia and founded the Village Improvement Project to enhance the quality of life in Liberian villages. How does VIP make good on its mission? For starters, they...
View Article4 Practical Tips For Strengthening Your Nonprofit’s Networks
1. Remove barriers to participation. With nonprofits based in 170 countries, we had to find a tech solution to connect our diverse network. We searched for an online meeting software that would work...
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5 Simple Questions That Skyrocketed One Nonprofit’s Reach
Day after day, Lauren Poinier watched students struggle to read in low-income areas of New York City as a special education teacher. The outlook for her students wasn’t good. By pre-school, they would...
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Why We Look Forward To Our Next Mistake
We are proud of our mistakes. They are what help us learn to do even better. At the dZi Foundation, we go to extra lengths to listen to community members, to learn from our past experiences, and to...
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WORKSHEET: Develop Your Nonprofit’s Theory Of Change
Overview Does your nonprofit have a theory of change document? It should! A written nonprofit theory of change will give you and your stakeholders—including your donors and staff—a deeper understanding...
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WORKSHEET: How To Ask Better Questions
Overview This free tool from Nesta’s Development Impact & You Toolkit will help and your team get to the heart of what motivates people—whether you want to focus on your staff, donors, or the...
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GUIDE: 5 Questions To Improve Your Nonprofit’s Effectiveness
Overview The Charting Impact Guide encourages strategic thinking about what it will take to achieve your nonprofit’s goals. By answering five simple, but important questions in the Charting Impact...
View ArticleTop 10 Nonprofits Committed To Impact
See the ten nonprofit finalists and five honorable mentions who’ve proved their commitment to effectiveness in 2017. The post Top 10 Nonprofits Committed To Impact appeared first on Learn - GlobalGiving.
View ArticleFind Out How They’re Listening, Acting, And Learning
These nonprofits are making an impact in clinics, classrooms, and communities. Get to know our top nonprofits committed to impact. The post Find Out How They’re Listening, Acting, And Learning appeared...
View ArticleHow One Nigerian Nonprofit Turned Obstacle Into Opportunity
THE GOAL Combating gender-based violence In my community there several proverbs to acknowledge failure as part of development: “My enemy, do not make jest of me because as many times I fall down I will...
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GUIDE: How Small Nonprofits Can Use The Performance Imperative To Improve
Overview This short introductory document provides accessible entry points and specific tips for using the Performance Imperative (PI), a framework for social-sector excellence developed by the Leap of...
View ArticleRigorous Humility: Seeking A Healthier Relationship With Results
In the social good sector circles I travel in, we are thinkers. We high-mindedly question everything about “what works.” We obsess about gathering data to answer those questions. At what point does...
View ArticleSocial Impact Terminology Explained
Why measure social impact? Everyone working to create change in the world—whether through a company, in their volunteer work as an individual, or through a nonprofit—is seeking to create social...
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GUIDE: Feedback Simplified—How To Use Feedback To Amplify Your Nonprofit’s...
Overview Getting feedback is critical to the long-term success of your nonprofit. And the feedback process doesn’t have to expensive or overly time-consuming. It’s especially important to listen to the...
View Article5 Ways To Be Community-Led While Serving People With Disabilities
“Unless every one of our citizens can reach their full potential, our nations never will.” The words of Penny Mordaunt, UK Secretary of State for International Development, at the 2018 Global...
View ArticleHow I Thrived In My Year Of Youth Service
Everyone fears turning into their parents, right? Yet, it seems to happen to all of us at one point or another. There’s that horrible day when we open our mouths to speak and our mother (or father!)...
View ArticleMeet The Winning Nonprofits From GlobalGiving’s Top 10 List!
Meet the 10 nonprofit finalists and five honorable mentions who’ve demonstrated their commitment to learning and effectiveness in 2018. The post Meet The Winning Nonprofits From GlobalGiving’s Top 10...
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WORKSHEET: How To Define And Examine Problems Facing Your Nonprofit
Overview Designed by Nesta as part of the Development & You Toolkit, the “Problem Definition Worksheet” is intended to help nonprofit leaders clarify their mission-driven priorities and focus on...
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WORKSHEET: Nonprofit SWOT Analysis
Overview SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Download the “SWOT Analysis Worksheet” to examine internal and external factors that may impact the present and future health...
View Article12 Top-Notch Tools That Made Nonprofits More Effective In 2018
Some of the most effective nonprofits and businesses all have one thing in common: They listen to the people they intend to help, they act on what they hear by trying out new ideas, they learn from the...
View ArticleMom-To-Mom Magic: An Inside Look At A Pilot Program For Girls With Disabilities
Listen Special Families Saint Julie Billiart has always been a project led by mothers of children with special needs. We have developed programs in Matagalpa, Nicaragua that support these mothers and...
View ArticleWhy A Girls Club In Ghana Changed Its Membership Policy
Listen Three years ago, Self-Help International realized we were missing a critical opportunity to work alongside our partner communities to break the cycle of poverty in Ghana. Working with women...
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How One Nonprofit In Ghana Calls In The Community To Change Attitudes About...
Jemimah F. EminsangHead of Programmes, Child Research for Action and Development Agency (CRADA)Who She Is:Jemimah F. Eminsang is the Head of Programmes for Child Research for Action and Development...
View ArticleA Journey Into The Neutrality Paradox
These platforms are forced to publicly justify their responses to dilemmas, often under scrutiny, whilst also trying to maintain a balance of trust and transparency with the public. At GlobalGiving, we...
View ArticleFrom Peru To Colombia, South American Nonprofits Let Communities Lead
Every nonprofit strives to improve the life quality of the community they are working with. It’s up to every nonprofit to find the best way of reaching out to and helping their community, but...
View ArticleWhy (And How) Philanthropy Must Shift Accountability Toward Communities
Today’s aid and philanthropy systems rely on exchanges of resources, trust, and information—often expected to come from outcome or impact reporting. In these systems, accountability flows primarily...
View Article5 Ways We Were Wrong About Platform Neutrality
For more than a year, we’ve met with more than 100 people and spent countless hours helping GlobalGiving and similar platforms determine how to address what we are calling the Neutrality Paradox for...
View ArticleGlobal Perspectives On The Neutrality Paradox Debate
Over the past three months, Alliance magazine hosted a lively discussion about the Neutrality Paradox. Nonprofit leaders like Leah Wandera from Hope for African Women called neutrality “the only lens...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Learned About Accelerating Community-Led Change
More than a decade ago, GlobalGiving had a problem. Hundreds (and later thousands) of nonprofit organizations were eager to join the GlobalGiving community, and we didn’t have the resources to vet and...
View ArticleListening For Lasting Change
Our organization formed 15 years ago at the urging of community leaders who wanted to do something about the barriers to better health in rural Guatemala, including language, culture, and...
View ArticleWhy GlobalGiving Reimagined The Way It Welcomes Partners
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View ArticleHow To Set Strategic Goals At Year End For Your Nonprofit
The end of the year launches nonprofits everywhere into several busy months of intensive outreach, fundraising appeals, event planning, and bookkeeping. After all, a successful year-end campaign can...
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