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Nonprofit-Outcomes-Toolbox

The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox - A complete guide to program effectiveness, performance measurement, and results

David Pritchard
01 September 2011
Alliance magazine

Any book that claims to be a ‘complete guide’ sets itself up for disappointment, and this problem applies to The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox. This is a shame because the book contains a lot of important ideas and information that many (including me) will find new and useful.

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McKinsey’s Learning for Social Impact Initiative

David Bonbright & Erika Lopez-Franco
1 June 2011
Alliance magazine

The 20-year-and-counting infatuation our profession has had with impact has now taken a welcome and clearly discernible shift towards performance, learning and improvement[1] and nothing represents this trend better than the Social Sector Office of McKinsey & Company’s Learning for Social Impact Initiative.

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Zimbabwe Alliance - Seizing the moment
Briggs Bomba

Zimbabwe Alliance - Seizing the moment

Briggs Bomba
1 March 2011
Alliance magazine

Following a decade of economic collapse and political stalemate, the formation of the unity government in Zimbabwe in February 2009 offered an opportunity to rebuild a civil society sector decimated by years of political and economic crises and to set the country on the path to a successful democratic transformation. Time was crucial in seizing the opportunity. A collaborative effort seemed to offer the best framework for a timely response, especially for funders new to Zimbabwe – hence the decision to create the Zimbabwe Alliance.

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The_Networked_Nonprofit

The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with social media to drive change

Vitaliy Moroz
1 December 2010
Alliance magazine

In 2006, Time magazine named an ordinary internet user Person of the Year. The same year Chris Anderson, now editor of Wired magazine, wrote his first bestseller, The Long Tail, which suggested that the future of entertainment is in millions of niche markets. It had a huge impact on the minds of small business people struggling to compete with big retail chains.

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You can’t ‘retrofit’ scale
Chris West

You can’t ‘retrofit’ scale

Chris West
1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

When Shell Foundation was established in 2000, we had ambitious objectives to catalyse scalable and sustainable solutions to key global development challenges. We set about doing this by pioneering an ‘enterprise-based approach’ and focusing on a range of social and environmental issues in which the energy industry has a particular responsibility. Scale has always been critical to our mission so we were particularly encouraged by the recent issue of Alliance dedicated to the subject.

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Want to be big? Go small
Benjamin Bradlow

Want to be big? Go small

Benjamin Bradlow
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

South Africa’s Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP), founded shortly after the country’s first democratic elections in 1994, consists of groups of mainly poor women who save small amounts of money daily. These groups have built over 15,000 houses. But in a country where the more than 2 million houses built by the government have barely put a dent in the housing backlog, going to scale as a social and developmental movement is still a monumental challenge.

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Can we do better in Haiti?
Nicolas Borsinger

Can we do better in Haiti?

Nicolas Borsinger
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

If you look at some of the key figures for the Asian tsunami and the Haiti earthquake, orders of magnitude are surprisingly similar: around 300,000 dead or missing; 1.8 million and 1 million (respectively) displaced or homeless; $11 billion and $9 billion pledged. But what is the single most significant predictable difference in the response to these disasters? I suggest it is ‘density of aid agencies’ and (worse) its ripple effects. This means that lack of coordination, low absorptive capacity and turf wars among aid agencies will all be even more problematic in Haiti.

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Better together? A user’s guide to funding advocacy coalitions
David Devlin-Foltz

Better together? A user’s guide to funding advocacy coalitions

David Devlin-Foltz
1 March 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

Caroline Hartnell, editor of Alliance, asked me to suggest some guidelines for funding advocacy coalitions, drawing on our work as planning and evaluation advisers to foundations and their advocacy grantees – who often work through coalitions of groups that join forces to promote policy changes. How can funders help such advocacy coalitions reach their potential? How can they help their advocacy grantees be ‘better together’? And how can they avoid doing harm? Click here to read ...


Do people value what they receive for free?
Kerry Brennan

Do people value what they receive for free?

Kerry Brennan and Daniel Tello
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

If you’ve ever sat through to the end of a bad movie simply because you didn’t want to ‘waste’ the money you spent on the ticket, you’re not alone. Many people assume that paying for something will make you more likely to use it, while items given away for free are undervalued and less likely to be used. These seemingly harmless assumptions have a big impact on current debates over how health products should be delivered to the poor.

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Center for Effective Philanthropy extends reach into UK

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is expanding its work into the UK and beyond. In spring 2009, CEP surveyed the grantees of the Pears Foundation and Friends Provident Foundation to produce a Grantee Perception Report® (GPR). The GPR provides comparative data on grantee perceptions of foundation performance in a variety of dimensions; all information from grantees is kept anonymous.
 

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