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Forces for Good: Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

Forces for Good: Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

by Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant

$7.95

An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last.

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  • Discover the six practices that enable nonprofits to have higher levels of impact.
  • Find out how to bridge the gap between service and advocacy-and become good at doing both.
  • Learn ways to work with markets and help business "do well while doing good."
  • Discover the three critical elements to sustaining impact: people, capital and infrastructure.

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About the Author

Leslie R. Crutchfield is a managing director of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a global association of social entrepreneurs; a philanthropic adviser; and a research grantee of The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program. She can be reached at lcrutchfield@forcesforgood.net.

Heather McLeod Grant is an advisor to the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, as well as to nonprofits. She is a former McKinsey & Company consultant and serves on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Contact her at hmgrant@forcesforgood.net.

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