New Site Aids Evaluation Process to Increase Impact
PerformWell offers questionnaires and other tools charities can use to assess their performance.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Data Visualization: a Gallery
Twelve colorful examples of infographics and interactive data tools created by charities.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Interactive Graphics Can Enhance Supporters’ Engagement
As the cost and difficulty of producing such infographics has gone down, more nonprofits are finding ways to let people find their own stories in data.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Charity Adds Design Expertiseto Its Small Staff for Big Results
A Child’s Right, which provides clean drinking water in developing countries, hired a designer who could help people visualize the group’s mission.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Visualizing Data Helps Charities Get Attention
Data-rich graphics are transforming how nonprofits reach the public and helping them improve the way they serve others.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charities Offered Chance to Win an Interactive Training Simulation
A company that creates interactive simulations seeks to use its technology for social change.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Innovation: a Free Webcast
The Taproot Foundation is bringing together experts who, it promises, will provide pragmatic ideas.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How a Zoo Reduces Conflicts Among Workers
The Saint Louis Zoo uses a program that distills personality types into categories and makes sure all kinds of employees are included on teams.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
At FailFaire, Speakers Muster Their Courage to Offer Candor About Mistakes
Employees of charities say being frank about unsuccessful technology projects provides others with important lessons to help avert similar failures.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Innovation Case Studies in the Arts
ArtsFwd, a new Web site, features profiles of cultural groups that are experimenting with bold new approaches.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Helping Nonprofits Benefit From Fresh Ideas
Insight Labs, a nonprofit in Chicago, gathers outside experts to help charities think through tough questions.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Greater Openness About Finances Helps a Chicago Charity Make Plans
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago now gets its whole staff involved in budgeting and monitoring expenses.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Narrower Focus Helps City Year Win Grants and Increase Its Impact
City Year now throws all of its efforts into curbing the school dropout rate and is drawing more grants and better results.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Fund to Promote Innovation in Philanthropy
The North Carolina group hopes the money will draw attention to new approaches to social problems and help it expand.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofits Find Delicious Opportunities in the Food-Truck Craze
Nonprofits are creating mobile farmers’ markets, nurturing small businesses and calling attention to social needs and cultural events.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Donor Helps Push Innovation at Wharton
A $2.7-million gift to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School will push ideas from the classroom out to the real world.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor