Businesses straddling the worlds of commerce and development offer the chance to address poverty at scale, but very few succeed. To improve them in India and elsewhere, investors and practitioners should note four common challenges and ask five simple questions.
At a time when division seems like the only thing we all have in common, two “relational activists” describe how building person-to-person connections can keep us from being paralyzed by recalcitrant and complex social problems.
How organizations can create a culture that supports innovation, regardless of their size or complexity. The fourth of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
By expanding support to arts and cultural organizations in diverse neighborhoods, funders can provide a missing ingredient in the effort to advance equity.
A pragmatic, “good enough” approach to experimentation in humanitarian contexts. The third of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
Two years after nearly a dozen India-focused organizations in the United States began discussing how they could combine forces, they have launched the India Philanthropy Alliance and revealed insights into making complex collaborations work.
An excerpt from Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs examines how employees catalyze innovation from within organizations.
By bringing diversity and inclusion to the forefront, even the most traditional organizations can enhance the design and implementation of social solutions. The second of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
At SSIR’s 2019 Nonprofit Management Institute, presenters and participants addressed the economic and emotional anxieties facing civil society leaders and shared advice for moving forward with confidence.
Effectively tackling farmer poverty in global supply chains is not about repeating what others have tried in the past—it’s about doing business differently.
