New Approaches to Ed-Tech Funding
Until recently, both foundations and venture capital firms were wary of directing resources toward education technology startups. Here’s how “blended capital” is expanding the ed-tech field.
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Who Will Pay for Data?
The quest to build an infrastructure for measuring social impact depends on targeting the right customers.
Access by Prescription
By following the right regimen, pharmaceutical companies can boost their ability to bring life-saving medicines to poor customers.
Statehouse Scrutiny
For nearly a quarter century, a network of research and advocacy groups has kept a close eye on US state-level policymaking.
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Scaling Up Innovations With Government
How to overcome the barriers that large institutions like the government put in the way of scaling up innovations.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.