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Institute for Social Vision Design

NPO

37 items

Labs

Sixteen Years of MindLab Denmark — Reading a Government Policy Innovation Lab through the Six-Field Integration Model

Labs

Twenty Years of Kamiyama, Tokushima — Reading Rural Social Innovation through the Six-Field Integration Model

Insights & Analysis

One Year After Japan's Loneliness and Isolation Countermeasures Act: Why Only 0.6% of Municipalities Set Up Regional Councils

Practice Guides

Data Literacy for Social Impact: A Practical Guide to Japan's e-Stat and RESAS

Insights & Analysis

What Are the Seven Axes of SDI (Social Design Index)? — A Guide to Scoring Logic and Interpretation

Practice Guides

Starting a Social Business? Form a General Incorporated Association First

Practice Guides

Your NPO Isn't Using Ad Grants? How to Access Up to $10,000/Month in Free Advertising

Practice Guides

What Is a Non-Profit General Incorporated Association? — Differences from NPO Corporations and How to Choose

Practice Guides

Common Reasons Nonprofits Fail Ad Grants Review — The Structure of Rejection

Labs

Literature Map: Positioning Among Prior Institutions — Graduate School of Social Design, Rikkyo University, and ISVD

Practice Guides

How to Pass the Google for Nonprofits Review: Writing a Business Plan That Gets Approved

Practice Guides

How to Get Google Workspace for Free as a Nonprofit

Labs

Literature Map: The Genealogy of Civil Society Theory — Tocqueville→Habermas→Putnam→Salamon→Japan's NPO Movement and ISVD's Theory of Citizens

Practice Guides

How Ad Grants Gives Nonprofits Up to $10,000/Month in Free Search Advertising

Practice Guides

Practical Guide to Social Vulnerability Mapping During Disasters — Lessons from the Noto Peninsula Earthquake

Practice Guides

Dormant Deposits Utilization System Application Practical Guide (2026 Edition): Requirements and Preparation from the Public Offering Guidelines

Practice Guides

Gender Mainstreaming Practical Guide for NPOs — How to Integrate Gender Perspectives into Organizations and Operations

Practice Guides

Why Young Volunteers Leave — Structural Factors and Retention Design for NPOs

Practice Guides

What Is Google for Nonprofits? A Complete Guide to Free Google Tools for Nonprofits

Practice Guides

Resilient Organization Design Guide — Building Organizations That Withstand Uncertainty

Practice Guides

Gender Equality and Organizational Design — A Practical Guide

Labs

Epistemic Injustice and Information Access Gaps in NPOs — Visualizing Structures Where Voices Go Unheard

Insights & Analysis

Financial Reality of Japan's NPO Sector — Structural Vulnerabilities Hidden Within a 'Donation Powerhouse'

Insights & Analysis

Two Years Since the Act on Loneliness and Isolation — What Has the World's First Comprehensive Law Changed?

News

Introducing 'AI Fluency for Nonprofits': A Free AI Literacy Course for NPO Staff

Practice Guides

Designing Collective Impact — How to Move Intractable Problems Through Cross-Sector Collaboration

Practice Guides

Application Guide for the Dormant Deposits Utilization Program — How the System Works and What NPOs Need to Prepare

Practice Guides

Writing a Grant Application — A Practical Checklist to Improve Your Approval Rate

Practice Guides

Cash Flow Design for Nonprofits — A Practical Guide to Solving Funding Gaps Through Structure

Practice Guides

Introduction to Data Utilization for NPOs — Practical Steps for Small Organizations to Get Started

Practice Guides

Organizational Assessment Frameworks for Nonprofits — Turning Good Programs into Strong Organizations

Practice Guides

Social Enterprise vs. NPO — How Legal Structure Shapes Organizational Design

Practice Guides

A Practical Workshop Guide to Theory of Change — How to Map Your Hypothesis of Change as a Team

Practice Guides

What Is a Logic Model? A Practical Guide to Structuring Social Issues

Practice Guides

Designing Outcome Indicators — Evaluation Thinking for Social Projects Beyond KPIs and KGIs

Practice Guides

Introduction to Social Impact Evaluation Design — Practical Steps Nonprofits Can Take Today

Practice Guides

How to Create a Stakeholder Map — Relationship-Building Techniques from 3 NPO Case Studies