Peter Murray and Steve Ma of Accelerate Change, a nonprofit incubator that uses lean experimentation, examine the potential of the popular management model to launch, test, and implement new programs and services more efficiently and effectively....

California Community Foundation president emeritus Jack Shakely explains why people in the philanthropic community need to move beyond their fear of donor-advised funds….

In the latest article in our SSIR@PND series, Anne B. Stanton and Alison Powell examine the James Irvine Foundation's Linked Learning initiative for insights into how adaptive philanthropy works in practice....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen shares her framework for assessing how technology — plus a few tweaks in mindset — can help philanthropy become more accountable, collaborative, and effective....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Achilles Kallergis and Alexandre Lambelet argue for a more scientific, cumulative approach to philanthropy....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Peter Senge, Hal Hamilton, and John Kania claim that the deep changes necessary to accelerate progress on society's most intractable problems require a unique type of leader — one who catalyzes collective leadership.…

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Sarah Kaplan, associate professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, and Jackie VanderBrug, a senior vice president and investment strategist at U.S. Trust, explain an emerging movement to improve outcomes for everyone by linking feminist and financial goals….

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Sylvia Yee, vice president of programs at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, explains how marriage equality grew from a contentious fringe issue in 2004 to a mainstream cause that a majority of Americans now support and urges leaders of other social change movements to learn from its lessons....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Christopher Oechsli, president and CEO of Atlantic Philanthropies, and David La Piana, who is serving as an advisor to Atlantic, share some of the best practices they have devised for winding down a large, high-profile foundation....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Steven Teles, a professor of political science at John Hopkins, Heather Hurlburt, a senior fellow at Human Rights First, and the New America Foundation's Mark Schmitt examine the deep structural changes in American politics and society since the passage of the Affordable Care Act five years ago and their implications for a philanthropic sector used to operating "above the fray"....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Arizona State University's Kevin Desouza and Kendra Smith describe four steps that need to be taken to improve the use of big data for social innovation....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Anne-Claire Pache and Artjur Gautier of the ESSEC Business School in Paris explain how a wave of global economic growth has shaped the practice of family philanthropy in France....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Fay Twersky, director of the Effective Philanthropy Group at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and former director of impact planning and improvement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, tries to pinpoint the qualities that make a great foundation CEO....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, the Bridgespan Group's Katie Smith Milway, Maria Orozco, and Cristina Botero explain why, despite growing interest and available funding, the social sector fails to take advantage of organizational mergers....

Joe Magee, vice president of marketing for nonprofit software provider RallyBound, uses the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act to explain what the typical underresourced nonprofit can do to get the most out of technology....

In the latest article of our SSIR@PND series, the president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation writes about the importance of working with the public sector to scale social initiatives....

In the latest article of our SSIR@PND series, Warren Nilsson and Tana Paddock describe how organizations can use the practice of "inscaping" to develop their capacity for sustained social innovation, and why the key to changing the world may have less to do with understanding far-flung stakeholders than with connecting to the person who sits at the desk right next to you....

In the latest article in our SSIR series, Peace Appeal Foundation executive director Derek Brown suggests that the true power of civil society organizations in conflict-prone nations lies in their ability to support the indigenization of the peacemaking process....