Philanthropy & Funding
Do They Still Need Our Money?
A wave of big-bet grants has left some funders asking whether recipient organizations still “need” their money. That’s always the wrong question.
A wave of big-bet grants has left some funders asking whether recipient organizations still “need” their money. That’s always the wrong question.
SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.
Jibu franchises make clean drinking water affordable for Africa’s booming urban populations and provide economic opportunity to a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Scale is a verb, not a noun: The trajectory and curve of impact are more important than the numbers.
How can you scale your social impact across borders and advance your giving strategies? Where do you start and what do you need to know about mechanisms for global charity? SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks with Kelsey McCarthy of the Charities Aid Foundation of America and Fred Kaynor of Schwab Charitable. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of Schwab Charitable.
Having a great idea is only half of the innovation journey: For your brainchild to succeed, guard against these four implementation myths.
The business world’s “Engine 1/Engine 2” concept can help ambitious nonprofits balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s potential.
For all the glowing press that unconditional cash transfers (UCT) have gotten, cash is still a long way from living up to the hype and transforming the development sector.
The systematic scale-up of social entrepreneurs’ solutions by Big International NGOs (BINGOs) is simply not a thing. Why not?
A look at how a community kitchen initiative in India used insights from behavioral science to rapidly scale its services, delivering 4.5 million meals to homeless migrant workers even as the country instituted the world’s largest lockdown to combat COVID-19.