Recipe for Impact
Delivering nutritious school lunch fare on a large scale is the social mission—and the business model—of Revolution Foods.
Philanthropy - Articles
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Casting a Tight Net
Humanity United is pursuing a strategy that combines carrots and sticks—collaboration and activism—to confront human rights abuse in the seafood industry. Includes magazine extras.
Improving Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships
Three ways corporations can more effectively partner with nonprofits.
Understanding Risk Tolerance in Grantmaking
By applying behavioral economics theory to philanthropy, we can better manage grantmaker tendencies toward loss and risk aversion, and the effects of other decision-making patterns.
Five Programmatic Lessons in Scaling Impact
A look at how a number of Social Innovation Fund subgrantees are successfully developing program strategies for greater growth and impact.
Making Evidence Practical for Development
Three ways to make research and evaluation in international development more relevant, ethical, and applied.
Big and Fast Is Not Better
Building relationships with grassroots organizations that advocate for human rights-based development takes time, but without investing in them, philanthropy is likely to stumble. The case of Haiti is instructive.
Avoiding Four Pitfalls in Digital Learning
Early approaches are advancing fruitful dialogue around how to accelerate the revolutionary potential of online education and enable better outcomes for graduates.
Five Lessons for New Philanthropists
Before tackling complex social problems, new philanthropists should consider what current philanthropists have learned about how to “hack.”
Is Sean Parker the Daenerys Targaryen of Philanthropy?
Like Game of Thrones’ “Dany” Targaryen, entrepreneur Sean Parker is intent on replacing what he sees as a broken and oppressive system with something better.