Funding Without Prescription
In bringing the nutrition cohort a carefully calculated strategy, patient capital, and a willingness to let go, Newman’s Own Foundation is demonstrating success at the heart of the collaboration challenge.
Food - Articles
Innovative ways to increase access to food resources and improve food systems (more)
Farming in Detroit
The number of urban gardens in Detroit has been increasing as people seek to put abandoned land to better use.
Actionable Measurement: Getting from “Prove” to “Improve”
There’s a set of common questions every direct-service nonprofit should answer to maximize learning, action, and impact.
All Aboard the Food Forest
A free food project on New York's waterways challenges residents to imagine how we might adapt to a more resource-constrained world.
The Terrace Keepers
Farmers in the Cordillera region of the Philippines prosper by selling heirloom rice, with help from a company called Eighth Wonder.
Cultivating Coffee Co-ops
Many of the more than 355,000 smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda are members of producer co-ops.
How Agribusiness Can Avoid the Mistakes of Clean Tech
Promising practices for corporates, investors, and entrepreneurs to drive long-term innovation and avoid an investment bust.
A Permanent Path Out of Poverty for Small-Scale Farmers
We need more risk-takers and innovators who can offer end-to-end support to smallholder farmers facing climate vulnerabilities and other challenges.
The Community Cure for Health Care
Large health care systems are beginning to invest core operating dollars in connecting their patients to community resources, in service of the ultimate solution to better costs and outcomes: keeping patients healthy.
Entrepreneurship Upside Down: What If You Start With What You Have?
Takeaways from a municipal prize competition.