Persistent Poverty in a Smug Meritocracy
A response to Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk on nonprofit executives’ pay.
Watchdog
Investigating organizations and the people who run them
L3Cs: A Cure in Search of a Disease
Most social problems now addressed by charities cannot be appropriately addressed by for-profit entities, whether or not those entities pledge to restrict or recycle their profits.
Sequestering the Sector
With the threat of a sequester looming, the charitable sector risks being boxed in.
What Price Democracy?
A slippery slope: from good-willed private philanthropy in support of public goals to a system in which private goals predominate.
Keeping Climate Change Out of the Presidential Campaign
The complete absence of climate change from the first two presidential debates was the best thing that could have happened to the cause.
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Preserving the Meaning of Social Enterprise
Nonprofit and for-profit enterprises that prioritize social impact and financial sustainability need to band together and make the collective voice of social enterprise exponentially more powerful.
Leveling the Playing Field
US Federal subsidies encourage waste and incentivize unsustainable business practices.
Another Look at “Carbon for Water” in Western Kenya
There needs to be more scrutiny around the use of the LifeStraw water filter and more debate about the validity of its carbon for water deal.
A Platform Worth Spreading
Finger-wagging critics have missed the most provocative component of the TED empire.
Diversity and the Komen-Planned Parenthood Debacle
An important lesson that no one is talking about but that we all need to learn.
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