Q&A With Desh Desphande
Serial technology entrepreneur Desh Deshpande is taking innovation techniques created at MIT and using them to solve social problems in India.
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Empowering India’s Girls
Sometimes collaboration is the most direct route to impact.
Indian Philanthropy: By the Numbers
Indians are giving more time and more money to charitable causes in India.
Coal: The Time to Divest Is Now
Coal is in decline, and it may well be terminal.
Islamic Finance and Social Responsibility
As the demand for business to connect with responsibility grows globally, Islamic financial and socially responsible markets have much to learn from one another.
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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.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.