Advocacy

"Scaling Up" in a Time of Scarcity: Some Experiences, Observations, and Caveats (Part III)

This is Part III of a speech delivered by Gara LaMarche before participants at the second annual Conference on Scaling Impact, hosted by the Social Impact Exchange. You can read Part I here and Part II here. A PDF of the full speech is available here.

"Scaling Up" in a Time of Scarcity: Some Experiences, Observations, and Caveats (Part II)

This is Part II of a speech delivered by Gara LaMarche before participants at the second annual Conference on Scaling Impact, hosted by the Social Impact Exchange. You can read Part I here.

Creating Power, Creating Demand: The Caño Martín Peña Project

The development of a community land trust (CLT) in Puerto Rico might be a pretty good story by itself. What makes it an extraord

From Service to Organizing: The Story of Sapientis

After graduating from the Kennedy School in 2001, Kristin Ehrgood moved to Puerto Rico with her (now) husband, Vadim Nikitine, with the ambi

The Story of PROTECTA: Trying to Reconcile Organizing and Service Delivery

Two years ago, Mladen Jovanović, one of three founders of PROTECTA, a Serbian NGO, took my online executive program on

Striking a Balance Between Supply and Demand

In this series of blogs, I’m going to discuss the problem of the lack of balance in funding service-providing nonprofits and funding those that engage not only in some sort of advocacy,