Recent Publications by Meehan and Jonker

Not every nonprofit organization can do everything well. That’s one reason why every nonprofit must work relentlessly to achieve and retain its strategic focus—a commitment to doing what it does best. This article from SSIR takes an excerpt from Engine of Impact and highlights the nonprofits that have mastered the essentials of strategic leadership—organizations like Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS).

Five years ago, Bill Drayton described the emergence of a new organizational model for the social sector. This article for SSIR highlights recent research on the promise of that model.

From The Bridgespan Group, April 2018: A survey of more than 3,000 nonprofit sector stakeholders illuminates shortcomings in performance that limit the impact potential of many organizations.

Throughout the nonprofit sector, scaling is viewed as a cardinal imperative. Is your organization truly ready to expand its impact? Here, presented in an article for SSIR, is a tool to help you find out.

From McKinsey Quarterly, a brief guide to serving as a nonprofit board member.

The Stanford Survey on Leadership and Management in the Nonprofit Sector shows that most nonprofits fall short in important areas of performance. This article, from SSIR, discusses ways to help solve this problem.

A call to action for the Impact Era, published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy.