Six practices of high-impact non-profits

An article not to miss if you are interested in how civil society organisations can be effective is: http://www.ssireview.org/images/articles/2007FA_feature_mcleod_grant_cru... "Creating High-Impact Nonprofits"

"What we discovered after closely examining these 12 high-impact nonprofits came as a bit of a surprise. We had assumed that there was something inherent in these organizations that helped them have great impact – and that their success was directly tied to their growth or management approach. Instead, we learned that becoming a high-impact nonprofit is not just about building a great organization and then expanding it to reach more people. Rather, high-impact nonprofits work with and through organizations and individuals outside themselves to create more impact than they ever could have achieved alone. They build social movements and fields; they transform business, government, other nonprofits, and individuals; and they change the world around them."

At proMENTE we are happy to say that we have the honour of working with Civil Society organisations such as AVSO (www.avso.org) and SEEYN (www.seeyn.org) that punch above their weight in just the way that Grant & Crutchfield talk about.