Stanford Social Innovation Review : Informing and inspiring leaders of social change

Jeff Skoll is one of the most creative, generous, and effective philanthropists of his time. And at age 47, he’s just getting started.

Corporate donors prefer the opera to the soup kitchen.

The outgoing president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation reflects on the importance of strategic philanthropy.

Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz

Donors and grantmakers are allocating money more efficiently, thanks to the emergence of information and funding intermediaries.

Watch dog organizations don't reach most donors.

The diseases that get funded tend to be the ones for which funders can take credit.

Giving circles are powerful ways to transform the world while also transforming participants’ giving.

Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.

What’s behind Los Angeles's quiet but notable pace of innovation.

From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.

There's only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.

In piloting social impact bonds, governments have already yielded some lessons from the field.

Philanthropy is not sufficient and taxation is necessary.

Donors who use cell phones to make donations do more than give, they talk about it.

A summary of articles and discussions about the Gates Foundation’s impact on global social change.

From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.

Philanthrocapitalists are vital to moving beyond blame-game rhetoric to try to figure out solutions to the world’s problems.

Too few philanthrocapitalists are asking themselves hard questions about a model of economic growth that has made their acquisition of wealth possible.

Jaquelin Hume Foundation Executive Director Gisele Huff talks about the foundation's investment strategy, and why innovation and technology initiatives are significant.

Jennifer Lynn Aaker discusses a repeatable method that we can follow to get people to take action, but perhaps even more important, to influence people to get others to take action as well.

Analyzing the Gates Foundation’s impact on global social change.

What current global trends in philanthropy and discuss what they mean to foundations, philanthropists, and nonprofits.

Four practices of catalytic philanthropy and how to apply them in the real world.