This marvelous article, published last spring in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, outlines the importance of building capacity within a network of likeminded nonprofits, to tackle social problems that otherwise would be out of reach even to the largest and most well-resourced NPOs.
In short, it is a distributed, Internet-era model for social service, which the article describes as more adaptable, packing more impact, and using resources more efficiently:
“The Networked Nonprofit” (PDF)
The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009
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