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• Leslie MacKrell on Cutting Nonprofit Costs to Increase Impact

  June 15, 2017 · 3 min

  Focusing on reducing costs can be the key to unlocking results at greater scale. Nonprofits in India and the United States provide important lessons for NGOs around the world on just how to do that.  Read the full article on SSIR.org >>

• Taz Hussein on Selling Social Change to Drive Demand to Your Nonprofit Programs

  January 25, 2017 · 4 min

  Often nonprofits focus their efforts on creating services that they think are innovative or effective and then express surprise when those services go begging for participants. It’s time for nonprofits to develop a more sales-driven…

• Tom Tierney Discusses Delivering on the Promise of Nonprofits

  January 25, 2014 · 12 min

  Nonprofit organizations should explore the answers to a handful of key questions to develop pragmatic, specific plans of action to increase their impact. In this Harvard Business Review article, Bridgespan authors Jeff Bradach, Nan Stone…

• From Data to Results in Preventing Dropouts in the Portland Public Schools

  January 25, 2013 · 12 min

  Many school district leaders, particularly those in urban areas, struggle to reduce dropout rates, but find themselves overwhelmed by the dimensions of the problem. There are, however, a few districts making notable progress towards…

• Envisioning the High School of the Future

  January 25, 2013 · 11 min

  What should the high school of the future look like, both for teachers and students? Former Bridgespan Partner Daniel Stid and Kelly Trlica, former Assistant Superintendant of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for the…

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