The most popular SVA Quarterly articles of 2014 reflect the core issues faced by the social purpose sector in the current environment including collaboration, measurement and evaluation, leadership, continuous improvement and the growth of impact investing. The articles provide analysis and tools to help managers and leaders bring about lasting social change.

Here’s a summary of the top five:

Investing in social change: SVA’s founding CEO, Michael Traill, explores smarter ways to build an efficient capital market for social purpose – one that can solve today’s entrenched social problems.

How to grow impact investing: What will it take for the Australian impact investing market to flourish?

Collaboration: six mistakes to avoid: The social sector increasingly recognises the need for collaboration to affect change, but there are obstacles to making it work.

Embedding continuous improvement: Duncan Peppercorn outlines the framework that supports social purpose organisations (and their funders) to get better at driving sustainable social change.

Taking the lead: Social purpose sector CEOs share their insights on the role of a leader. Find out what good leadership is, how leadership differs from good management and how to recruit, develop and assess leaders.

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