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The people, policies, and processes that provide the framework within which managers make decisions and take actions to optimize their outcomes.
Achieving a Better Balance Between Numbers and Scale
Foundation News & Commentary, May/June 2004, Vol. 45, No. 3
Finding a balance between diversity and scale is one of the biggest challenges for the increasingly crowded nonprofit sector.
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Nonprofits: Ensuring That Bigger is Better
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2004 Number 2
The federation structure remains a viable model for nonprofit organizations–if managements transform themselves and affiliates collaborate more closely.
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Nonprofits' Untapped Resource
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2004 Number 1
Alumni represent a deep reservoir of time, money, and talent. Here's how nonprofit organizations can foster enduring relationships with them.
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The Dynamic Board: Lessons from High-Performing Nonprofits
What do the boards of the best nonprofits do? Our answer, developed through a series of interviews with leading nonprofit organizations, suggests that a set of roles - prioritized according to environmental factors - and structural enablers play a part.
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The Dynamic Board: Self-Assessment Tool
The report includes a self-assessment tool to help boards evaluate their current performance against promising practices. There are three versions of the tool based on the time it takes to complete the assessment:
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Aid Agencies Team Up
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2003 Number 2 Organization
The key for charitable organizations hoping to achieve their goals more quickly and efficiently? Collaboration.
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Organization Lessons for Nonprofits
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2003 Number 2
For nonprofit organizations, pursuing the mission and building organizational capacity go hand in hand. At Teach For America, this meant diversifying the financial base, ending "mission creep," implementing sound management processes and a workable organizational design, and developing a positive, energetic culture. Its experience shows other nonprofits how to build a stable, thriving organization.
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Small Schools, Big Lessons
The McKinsey Quarterly, 2002 Number 2
Small learning communities can help big-city public schools re-create the intimacy and personal attention of their small-town counterparts, boosting graduation rates and achievement.
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