November 12, 2019
Dave Odom: How do I make my program sustainable?
Planning for the future is not primarily about trimming costs or adding a bit of revenue. A strategic sustainability plan involves regularly revisiting foundational questions about your program’s purpose and impact.
learn more about Dave Odom: How do I make my program sustainable?March 19, 2019
Susan M. Weber: Reframing evaluation
Effective evaluation is about learning from one’s work, not judgment. It is a process that must be in place from the beginning of a project and be done in community, writes the director of the Evaluation & Communication Project at the Center for Congregations.
learn more about Susan M. Weber: Reframing evaluationJanuary 8, 2019
Matt Overton: A new partnership helps a social enterprise create ‘networked impact’
Helping another social enterprise get off the ground offered an existing organization a chance to magnify the impact of its own programs to help teens and young adults.
learn more about Matt Overton: A new partnership helps a social enterprise create ‘networked impact’March 20, 2018
A tiny congregation with a big building is resurrected as a center for peace
Concerned about violence in their city, members of a declining church in Oakland shifted focus, redefined its ministry and invited nonprofit service agencies to work together as the Oakland Peace Center.
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