Impact Investing
Widening Our View of ESG Investing
Two strategies that can create greater environmental, social, and governance change than divestment while improving investment returns.
Articles
VIDEO
Technology
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Cyber Technologies In Our Social Systems
Stanford's Rob Reich and George Triantis, and Eli Sugarman of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Cyber Initiative, discuss the urgent need for better understanding of cyber-social systems.
Measurement & Evaluation
How Nonprofits Can Drive Healthy Growth Using SROI
Social return on investment is an underutilized yet surprisingly flexible tool for making strong resource allocation decisions that maximize nonprofit impact.
Design Thinking
Two Paths to Supporting Grassroots Innovation
An innovation experiment in Indonesia yields insights on how international development organizations can effectively foster innovation within the communities they aim to help.
Nonprofits & NGOs
A Teachable Moment from the LGBTQ Movement for the Nonprofit Sector
Understanding the intersections between racism and anti-LGBTQ bias is not only an important next step for the LGBTQ movement, but also the model for advancing social change and the nonprofit sector overall.
Technology
Giving Your Genius: A New Approach to Corporate Philanthropy
When companies deploy the same processes they use to create commercial value to create philanthropic value, they can truly help charities achieve their social missions.
VIDEO
Measurement & Evaluation
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Listening For Good
Valerie Threlfall of the Fund For Shared Insight, Krystle Onibokun of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, and Brad Dudding of the Center for Employment Opportunities talk about their experience with a new program that aims to build high quality feedback loops.
Measurement & Evaluation
Harnessing the Power of Evidence
Better use of evidence and developments in evaluation practice can shift the power dynamic between funders, service-delivering organizations, and service users.
Environment
Businesses and Investors Need to Act on Climate Now
A look at trends related to the economy and climate change, and three steps businesses and investors can take to move forward.