Experimentation: A Shortcut to Innovation
Leading organizations are placing bets on action over rhetoric.
Philanthropy - Articles
Innovative ideas for donors, foundation leaders, and philanthropists (more)
GiveThoughtfully: It Depends on Your Point of View
Bringing a discussion of cash transfers in for a landing.
Broadening the Aperture of Measurement
What research can and does tell us about unconditional cash transfers.
Grantmaking, Public Policy…and Tums
Exemplary grantmakers follow evidence, not presumptions, and recognize that effective strategy requires transforming enough things, not everything.
Beyond Aid
As leaders across sectors convene to discuss the new global agenda, the opportunity to collaborate on a new breed of large-scale development projects known as innovative financing has never been brighter.
Strategic Planning and Evaluation: Tools for Realizing Results
To enable significant impact, organizations should ask three key questions and decide if formal planning and evaluation are the right approaches to finding the answers.
Foundations for Social Impact Bonds
New research explores the role of foundations in the development of the new SIB market.
Managing Organizational Knowledge: Five Lessons
Better knowledge management depends on knowing what you don’t know.
Five Things Strategy Isn’t
The language, tools, processes, and practices of philanthropy have evolved steadily and dramatically, but strategy needs rescuing.
Leading the Way to Greater Global Giving
Celebrating collective generosity in the United States can boost philanthropy worldwide.