Go-Getters and Givers
Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World by Laura Arrillaga-AndreessenFinding Your Funding Model
Four guidelines provide a road map for leaders to identify and develop the right funding model for their organization.
Circles of Change
Lending circles, self-help groups, and study circles are among the oldest and most effective tools for creating personal and social change.
Opportunities in Mobile Health
The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.
Trawling for Trash
An EU Fisheries Commission Project pays fisherman to remove plastic debris from the Mediterranean Sea.
Too Good to Fail
In August 2010 the US government closed ShoreBank, one of the country’s leading social enterprises. Why did ShoreBank fail?
Revitalizing Struggling American Cities
Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.
Effective Partnerships
How local governments and nonprofits can work together for large-scale community change.
Microfinance Needs Regulation
The microcredit industry needs to be regulated through policies that address high interest rates and abusive loan recovery practices.
Water Thinking
The Peer Water Exchange manages diverse solutions and resources to fight the global water crisis.
It Takes a General Contractor
Nuru International identifies proven poverty-reduction programs and aims to take them to scale.
Improving Teamwork
Collectivist, group-oriented teams do better work.
Foundations as Investors
Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.
Student Retention App
A new Facebook app helps incoming freshmen connect—but within the closed community of their college.Chris West
Chris West leverages the assets of the Shell Foundation and its corporate parent to improve the lives of low-income people in the developing world.
Undisclosed Pharma Contributions
Most health advocacy organizations do not report industry funding.Reinventing Health Care Services
A doctor describes his groundbreaking, transdisciplinary effort to design more cost-effective care models for conditions that drive a large proportion of US health spending.
Scaling Play
KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play by Darell HammondRadically Small Thinking
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther DufloSupplicants No More
The End of Fundraising: Raise More Money by Selling Your Impact by Jason SaulHow Leaders Encourage Innovation
Transformational leaders capitalize on the creativity that employees have.When the Big Bet Fails
The Northwest Area Foundation learns—and shares—hard lessons from a 10-year initiative.
Sharing Evaluations
Organizations that report on charities are increasingly collaborative.Government 2.0
Thanks to Todd Park, a federal agency has discovered that health care organizations can think more like nimble startups than like lumbering giants.
The Missing Link in School Reform
American educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.
Cadaver Commerce
The moral legitimacy of a new market can come as much from how you sell something as from exactly what you’re selling.
Partnering for a Cure
The Myelin Repair Foundation is creating a process for the rapid development of new treatments and cures.
Rapid Response for Education
The National Math and Science Initiative aims to avert the crisis in secondary school education by replicating proven programs.
Investing for the Safety Net
Technologies that reduce costs and improve care for the underserved are often the most difficult to scale up. But a handful of strategies could turn things around.
Focusing on Advocacy
The time is now for foundations, large and small, to engage in public policy.
Transformational Networks
Global Action Networks: Creating Our Future Together by Steve WaddellNonprofits Aren’t More Commercial
A new study finds that nonprofits are not becoming more commercialized.Spring Water Protection Improves Health
Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.
Networking for Sustainable Transport
EMBARQ, a network of sustainable transportation experts, has grown quickly,thanks to impressive fundraising and the design of a model program.
Perspectives from the Field
Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.Sourcing Locally for Impact
By mapping a company’s relationship to the economy in which it operates, businesses can do much to advance their strategic objectives and advance local economic growth.
Framing the Issue
The CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation and the managing director of Versant Ventures provide an introduction to innovations for better health care at lower cost.
The Networked Nonprofit
Organizations should focus less on growing themselves and more on cultivating their networks.
Ethical Philanthropy
Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy by Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, & Leif WenarAntipoverty Apps
mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices.
The Emotions of Aid
“One death is a tragedy; 1 million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin is supposed to have said. The more people we see suffering, the less we care.
The Challenge of Organizational Learning
A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.
The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Roundtable on Shared Value
Executives from 10 major corporations discuss the innovative ways that they are putting societal issues at the core of their companies’ strategy and operations.
Amplifying Local Voices
GlobalGiving’s storytelling project turns anecdotes into useful data.
Local Empowerment Through Rapid Results
Why local ownership and commitment are the exception in most development efforts—and what development professionals can do about this problem.
Being the Only B
The owner of the only certified B Corporation in Kentucky assesses the pros and cons of the certification.
Thriving on Failure
Engineers Without Borders’ new website, Admitting Failure, gives new life to “good failures.” It aims to help organizations learn from others’ mistakes.Crowdsourcing Microfinance
The Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders initiative applies skills-based volunteering to poverty alleviation.
The Miracle of Financial Inclusion
The founder of the Kashf Foundation argues that microfinance can improve the lives of Pakistan’s next generation.