Impact

Nonprofit Vocabulary

The vocabulary nonprofits use when fundraising is counterproductive to their efforts at fundraising.

The Unsexy Role of Impact Plumbers

The pipes that move capital in the impact sector either don't exist, are clogged, or are going towards the wrong solutions.

Overhead is a 4-letter word

The problem with the idea of overhead in the nonprofit sector and how it distracts from the real work.

The Next Phase of Social Impact

In the social impact space (if there is a "space" so encompassing), it seems like the last ~20 years have been characterized by experimentation with different models and tools to create impact. It's been a renaissance of exploration. Organizations and individuals have applied entrepreneurship to solve

Solutions Looking for Problems

Many organizations we see are led by visionary leaders who want to effect change on a grand scale: tackle poverty, disrupt food systems, slow down global warming, transform healthcare. We need these people to expand our field of vision of what's possible, but many of their solutions fall