This is the last of a five-part series of blog posts by Keith Johnston on the role of international board members in the governance of international NGOs. By Keith Johnston Identifying and making decisions of global scope and significance is challenging for two related reasons. Compared with a national board, the issues become more abstract [...]

This is the fourth of a five-part series of blog posts by Keith Johnston on the role of international board members in the governance of international NGOs. By Keith Johnston The central governance questions for any board are: What are we trying to become? Where are we going? These are the core questions for the [...]

This is the third of a five-part series of blog posts by Keith Johnston on the role of international board members in the governance of international NGOs. By Keith Johnston A consistent endeavour is for each organisation to be more representative of the whole world in which it is working and to be able to [...]

This is the first of a five-part series of blog posts by Keith Johnston on the role of international board members in the governance of international NGOs. By Keith Johnston American folk icon Pete Seeger, when he encourages his audiences to sing along with him, often notes that by the time you have learnt the [...]

By Elisa Peter Until recently, branding was a dirty word in many nonprofit organizations. Not anymore. Branding used to conjure up images of profit-driven marketing executives sitting in high-rise offices of the likes of Coca-Cola and MacDonald’s. The few nonprofits that adopted branding early on were suspected by others to compromise their ethical values and [...]

By Nicoline Blokzeijl On February 24 2012 Bill Drayton (CEO and Founder, Ashoka) shared his views on social entrepreneurship during a talk at the Harvard JFK School of Government. It is clear that the concept entrepreneurship was established a long time ago and that the word social has brought the concept to a new dimension. [...]

by Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness and CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation The 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held December 2011 in Busan, South Korea, was a landmark event where civil society participated in negotiations on the new direction for international development cooperation on an equal basis with governments and donors, [...]

By Sara Nadel This post was originally published on the Harvard Business School’s Managing Innovation Blog Several years ago, I saw a presentation by Yale School of Management Economics Professor Mushfiq Mobarak about encouraging poor populations in Bangladesh to adopt clean stoves. Traditional stoves pollute air inside the home, causing respiratory illnesses and increasing cancer [...]

By Myra Batchelder The revolution will not be foundation-funded, advocates sometimes joke, representing their frustration with the current funding structures for social justice efforts. However, the young women that spoke last Thursday at Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations highlighted an innovative new model of participatory grant making with the FRIDA – Young Feminist Fund, [...]

By Nora McKeon Nothing unusual in the title of the seminar that The Hauser Center at Harvard University put together just over a year ago. Everyone from academics to NGOs, government officials and even rock stars seem to have something to say on the topic. The innovation here was the choice of the lead panelist: [...]