Bringing Philanthropy to China
Insight into the cultural, philosophical, and historical factors that shape China’s emerging philanthropic efforts.
Tag: Global Issues
Mobile Money in Haiti: A New Support for Disaster Relief and Development Programs
New mobile-based payment systems may offer a more affordable, and faster alternative to distributing cash to countries such as Haiti.
Collaborating To Achieve Scaled Impact
The mantra of "achieving scale” remains an elusive goal for those of us working in the global philanthropic and social enterprise sectors. What defines scale? Is it measured relative to the gap we seek to close? For example, after nearly 30 years of experience, we know that microfinance does benefit people who are living under $2 a day. Today, microfinance serves 150 million people. But, how do we deliver services to the nearly 2.7 billion people in the world who are unbanked? What is the right threshold to define scale and how do we get there?
The same questions could be posed to any number of gaps—access to secondary education, treatments for certain diseases, or clean water and sanitation—where we have effective tools... (continue reading this blog post)
SocialSquared: Productive Gaming on Facebook
The first vertical to “go social,” is games. What that means is that the experience has been reoriented around people, and with Facebook’s social graph as a backbone for interaction.
The advent of “social gaming” has taken us by storm. Companies like Playfish and Playdom are being auctioned off to the highest bidders—Electronic Arts and Disney respectively—and Zynga’s valuation is somewhere north of a billion dollars. The scale of the Facebook platform has provided savvy developers... (continue reading this blop post)
Youth Voices in the Global Economy
I had the opportunity to participate in two recent events leading up to the G-20 Summit in Toronto, which engaged youth on the global stage—the G(irls) 20 Summit and MY SUMMIT. These delegates demonstrated an intuitive understanding of today’s global challenges and offered solutions to governments. The G(irls) Summit urged leaders to take specific actions to expand the access of girls and women to education, healthcare and economic opportunities... (continue reading this blog post)
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Asking the Right Questions: Jeffrey Sachs Speaks at Stanford University
Jeffrey D. Sachs, the Director of The Earth Institute, Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University recently came to speak at Stanford University and raised some interesting points that are very relevant to the questions that are continually being asked by SSIR... (continue reading this blog post)
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